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

[Clint Popetz]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 07:35:12PM -0600, Mike Lehman wrote:
> 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

Dada should receive an upgrade within the week, so I'm going to put
off tracking this bug down in the hopes it disappears in the upgrade.
If not, I'll investigate further.  (<-- Engineering Tactic #693)

			-Clint