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Techies delight:

Does someone know the reason many if not most of the fora (?) I view have this (or equivalent) in front of them? It would appear to be the text of several cookies that I would anticipate shouldn't have been visible at all, but here they are...Is there perhaps a setting on my IE browser that should be modified? (Sorry, I know this is supposed to be a board for queries about words but it's starting to get annoying!)


Set-Cookie: words.read=,41506,,41511,,41519,%
2C41303,,41305,,41308,,41317,,41319,%
2C41323,,41332,,41335,,41347,,41354,%
2C41381,,41390,,41389,,41452,,41393,%
2C41395,,41421,,41433,,41436,,41442,%
2C41462,; Set-Cookie: words.read=,41506,,41511%
2C%; ... Connection: close Content-Type: text/html

...for a total of sixty-two lines.


Has anyone else seen it?


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OOOPs. In burying that monster thread, yours was getting a little buried too. Well, up you go.


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At work we changed over from Microsoft's Internet Explorer to Netscape yesterday at our ISP's insistence (something to do with avoiding viruses). I can now only look at one or two threads per forum before I get a message saying "The operation timed out when attempting to contact wordsmith.org"

How do I get round this? Are my awad days numbered?

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No, I think it's something to do with the server here, Mr B. Over several days (for me at least) it's been like treacle in a hairbrush.

Even with two or three windows open, browsing has been the slowest I have ever encountered on any site at any time - and all other sites are allowing access normally.

The only break in the slowdown was yesterday for a time. Now it's back to straining porridge through a string vest.


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Or swimming through molasses with lead weights on wrists and ankles.


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Like molasses uphill in January!
But..... my LAN gave me an alternate telephone dial up number and ...VOILA!!
You might want to ask ??


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MaxQ -

Regrettably, things are never as simple as they should/could be. My machine is part of a fairly large LAN and the cache isn't available to me for manipulation (at least I think it isn't). Guess I'll try a few more things - like booting up without logging on - and see if that gives any hint of being progress. If not I'll just just ignore the cookie crumbs.

In any case, thanks for the suggestion; I'll explore it.


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Unfortunately, wofahulicodoc, part of your problem is the fact that you are viewing AWAD through your LAN. I had exactly the same problem with AWAD at work in Zild. I asked our LAN administrator wherefore, and he gave me a complicated technical explanation (which I mercifully forgot immediately). However, what it boils down to is what Explorer sees over a LAN. Cookies on your workstation are not the issue. Your LAN server's cookies may, however, be it. The AWADTalk software uses cookies like they're going out of fashion. It's how your server deals with them which is affecting how your browser is acting up. Have a chat to your LAN people.

Mav, if you are using one of the vaunted Pommy ISPs as I am, everything will be running like treacle. They've gone into spasm over the Nimda (or whatever) virus. Also, they haven't managed to recover from the disruption to telecommunications caused by the attacks in America. This is their explanation for it, anyway. I've already offered mine (Demon Net) the services of a really professional ISP outfit to get them up and running in a business-like fashion. Really, it just seems typical of the telecommunications business here generally, in my admittedly-limited experience.

Bingley, I think you're being done under by your ISP ... Netscape is usually the problem, not the answer ... but you've probably already guessed that. Bin Laden may be bribing them.

On top of which, the server that AWADTalk sits on is probably a Commodore 64 or its immediate predecessor. Does any USn have access to a good, fast, Internet server which can be offered to Anu free of charge?

Whew!



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