[Imc-tech] Re: [Imc-newsroom] Article from Urbana-Champaign IMC

[Mike Lehman]

There have been a number of occurances lately where stories show as
submitted for preview, but were not posted. Since most of them have been
from IMC network spammers, I've seen no need to be concerned...

It did happen to me once, but of course I can easily fix the problem.
What the poster gets is simply a blank screen, instead of going back to
the story where it's supposed to. For spammers, this is usually not a
problem. They just think they have it posted and move on, because
they're in a hurry (so much spam, so little time) and because our IMC's
software works somewhat differently than that at the IMC's they're used
to spamming.

But legitimate posters may make multiple attempts to post when they
don't see their story come up. I think that's what happened with
tinyninjas' post. So I'm making what I think is a bug report (but it
just may be because maybe we were both using a crappy 'ol browser like
the one I use, Netscape 4.75.)
Mike Lehman

Clint Popetz wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:57:26AM -0600, tinyninjas at yahoo.com wrote:
> > The following article has been sent to you by tinyninjas at yahoo.com.
> >
> > The sender writes:
> > not sure my article is posting correctly -- can\'t find it on the home page... wanted to make sure it reached IMC media channels.  thanks, Clint.
> >
> 
> Thanks!  Your article actually posted four times.  There are two
> newswires on the right hand side of the imc home page, one for
> local news and one for non-local.  Since you didn't click the "local
> interest to the imc" box when submitting, they all went to the
> non-local newswire, which is probably why you didn't notice them.  I
> hid the extra copies of your article, fixed some strange character
> problems regarding quotes, and moved it to the local newswire.
> Just as I was ready to move it to the center-column features, another
> of the editors saw it and beat me to it.
> 
> Anyway, it's now prominently featured front and center.  Do you have a
> connection to the CityView?  Would you be interested in being
> interviewed for radio coverage of this issue?