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Strange occurrence I wish we had!

by Cursorcowboy Jul 10, 2005 10:56PM PDT

Traipsing through the forums this am, I was in the Win95/8 forum and going through the thread groups to see about further replies and at the URL:

http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6618-0.html?forumID=6&threadID=111699&messageID=1269217

Opening my message within that group, in a new window, rendered the following page which I sure wish we had all the time -- nice and white with no ad at the top or on some occasions an ad was there. I though perhaps it was a fluke -- most likely is -- and I tried several times with other messages without any luck, even to closing IEv6, accessing the forums again to try and recreate the same situation any where with another message. No luck, but each time I access the Win95/8 forum, open my thread in the foregoing URL group, I get the following displayed but with a perfect resolution (some blue and red with only black and white in an entirely new layout):

http://home.mindspring.com/~bgaston2/_images/forum1.jpg

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I just tried that I and get the
by roddy32 Jul 11, 2005 12:32AM PDT

same white page as you Bill in IE but I tried it in Firefox and it doesn't do that. Strange for sure.

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Not for me...
by John.Wilkinson Jul 11, 2005 1:43AM PDT

I'm running Windows XP Pro. w/SP2 (not sure if that makes a difference, but I noticed your screenshot was taken in an older OS), but received the standard yellow background, enhanced user interface, and ads I normally do, in both IE6.0 and Firefox 1.0.4. While it's interesting to see a text-only layout, I don't think I could do without the graphical layout I'm accustomed to.

Strange.
John

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(NT) (NT) same here Bill, IE yes, FF no
by jonah jones Jul 11, 2005 4:04AM PDT
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(NT) (NT) Do 'u think we could bottle it & make a fortune.
by Cursorcowboy Jul 11, 2005 6:34AM PDT
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knowing my luck Bill
by jonah jones Jul 11, 2005 9:01PM PDT

they'd change the recipe after the first shipment...

Wink

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"Dead"depends of 'ur understanding and use of procedures
by Cursorcowboy Jul 11, 2005 11:46PM PDT

Test message only; to see if the original thread subject had anything to do with the subsequent display situation -- probably not, but anything is worth the effort ,-)

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(NT) (NT) Well I'll be fried in hog grease -- it does . . . .
by Cursorcowboy Jul 11, 2005 11:48PM PDT
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Even stranger
by TONI H Jul 12, 2005 3:58AM PDT

You posted the same topic line above as your post in W98 Forums and I immediately got the same text only white page within this thread as I clicked that post to read it. It wasn't a bounce back to the original post because it had this Feedback thread tree included with it. I'm going to try an experiment and post another reply after this with the same topic line and see if it happens with my post, too.

I have XP Pro SP/2 and IE6 running so I don't think it really has anything to do with what version the OS is.

TONI

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"Dead"depends of 'ur understanding and use of procedures
by TONI H Jul 12, 2005 4:00AM PDT

test post

TONI

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WOW....IT DOES, BILL
by TONI H Jul 12, 2005 4:01AM PDT

I'm going to try one more test using just the word 'dead' in the post as you have it written and see if the filter is doing it.

TONI

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"Dead"
by TONI H Jul 12, 2005 4:02AM PDT

TONI test

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"Dead"depends
by TONI H Jul 12, 2005 4:03AM PDT

TONI test

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"Dead"depends of 'ur
by TONI H Jul 12, 2005 4:04AM PDT

TONI test

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There's the cutoff point to where it 'breaks'
by TONI H Jul 12, 2005 4:05AM PDT

so I will test once more with just the "'ur" to see if that is the only 'break'.

TONI

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'ur
by TONI H Jul 12, 2005 4:06AM PDT

TONI test

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"Dead"depends of 'ur
by jonah jones Jul 12, 2005 5:11AM PDT

test letters

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recipe "found" 'you bottle
by jonah jones Jul 12, 2005 5:23AM PDT

maybe...

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The cutoff for the break appears to be
by TONI H Jul 12, 2005 4:08AM PDT

just the first few words of that particular topic line post, but eliminating any part of it doesn't break it....it must be 'strung' together in that order for some reason. Maybe Lee can get somebody to figure out what happens.

TONI

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(NT) (NT) "and" if you end '
by jonah jones Jul 12, 2005 5:08AM PDT
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That is so weird...
by waxplayer Jul 12, 2005 4:26AM PDT

and funny! I?m intrigued by the answer as to ?why?? this is happening.

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(NT) (NT) "me" too'
by jonah jones Jul 12, 2005 5:08AM PDT
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(NT) (NT) "me" 'too
by jonah jones Jul 12, 2005 5:10AM PDT
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"1234"1234567 12 '12
by jonah jones Jul 12, 2005 5:13AM PDT

test numbers

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"1234" '12
by jonah jones Jul 12, 2005 5:15AM PDT

test short numbers

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"1" '1
by jonah jones Jul 12, 2005 5:15AM PDT

even shorter numbers

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"Bonjour" 'ello
by jonah jones Jul 12, 2005 5:16AM PDT

testing "..." '.

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"quotes" 'apostrophe
by jonah jones Jul 12, 2005 5:18AM PDT

the answer?

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quotes ''second" 'word
by jonah jones Jul 12, 2005 5:19AM PDT

jonah

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quotes can be "anywhere" 'here
by jonah jones Jul 12, 2005 5:20AM PDT

weird..... but nice

Happy

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'apostrophy and then "quotes"
by jonah jones Jul 12, 2005 5:21AM PDT

i bet i break it Happy

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