Post #20,059
12/3/01 8:51:11 AM
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Lemme try this...
You are telling us that the name, "Abdul Hamid" triggers some special censorship? I highly doubt that is Scott...
Cheers,
Ben
PS It isn't happening here.
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Post #20,060
12/3/01 9:37:15 AM
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Re: I really can't make any sense of it
I tried at least 10 times to post what I had written but it was only when I removed that name that it went through. When I later tried to edit a succesful post by adding the original text note it again was rejected - message I got was that that web page not accessible to me.
I split the post into two & 1st half made it but not the last bit with the quoted text. Only when I asterisked it did it get thru -
as I said makes no sense but this happened.
I will put it down to some other bizzare set of conditions.
Any way the guy's name was as already mentioned, John Walker alias Abdul Hamid.
Cheers
Doug
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Post #20,070
12/3/01 11:28:35 AM
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Test.
Also A Washington born fighter with fair skin and a mid-atlantic accent was among those to emerge. He was identified by Newsweek magazine as Abdul Hamid, 20 and well-spoken. 'Hamid' declined to provide his original name but it seems he converted to Islam at age 16 and went to Pakistan then on to Afghanistan 6 months ago to help the Taliban implement a pure Islamic country.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Post #20,072
12/3/01 11:28:55 AM
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ISP check.
What ISP are you using?
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Post #20,152
12/3/01 9:20:40 PM
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Re: PCCW (HK Telecom) - but may have the answer now
But I think I may be on to something - I just posted in news items & got the same problem - that too was a cut n paste job & I had to fiddle with the contents for a while before it got accepted.
Cheers Doug
(PS I work for this ISP :-)
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Post #20,091
12/3/01 2:11:52 PM
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Are you now in HK or Oz?
Umm .. since you are sentient and know far more about all this stuff than moi: are you experiencing a local version of Carnivore / packets sniffed & sanitized locally ??
Certainly seems a matter worth pursuing - as in, trying to post above on some local BBS or other? Could Oz, HK be experiencing the Ashcroft Covenant.. a virus now spreading worldwide and described as,
..Watch.. What You Say\ufffd
(A precursor of the 2002 version of the Ashcroft Sanitized WWW: Passport, IE 7.0, XP-Secure Required. Also retina scan for access, on approval of Notarized loyalty oath.)
Ashton Orwell Foulwell
(umm it's too early for April 1 material, Doug ;-)
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Post #20,136
12/3/01 6:57:41 PM
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Re: In H.K. this week :-) - have derived 1 theory
I will try a few more tests today.
There has to be an explanation. When it 1st happened I went in to Linux forum & posted an unrelated item & it worked right away - I then tried doing all the edits & it was *only* when I added the bit in about Walker that the rejection occured.
One theory I thought up overnight is that I originally wrote that post in Notepad & then cut & pasted the contents in. Am wondering is a termination char was causing Z.IWETHEY to reject the content ???. The Walker bit was the last few lines !
Anyone got any thoughts ?
Doug
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Post #20,170
12/4/01 12:22:02 AM
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Unprintable characters?
Something like that messing up the post?
Simple experiment - try the cut & paste - then type exactly the same line - see if they both take.
(Yeah, I like these bugs, I weird that way.)
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Post #20,173
12/4/01 12:46:15 AM
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Re: Unprintable characters? Apropos example
I noted that the ascii for e-circumflex, as in 'm\ufffdme' - in some docs, when cut&paste: produces (here) 'm\ufffd\ufffdme' (I just 'did' it from such a .doc)
In above case the ALT+(234) for \ufffd - gave A-tilde (195) and, I have no idea! where an 'a-exponent' comes from...
Clue?
Ashton
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