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tlchost

The forumm seems to have problems with notifications of posts made in threads.

Here's an example:

You are receiving this email because you are watching the topic, "Pidgin 2.10.0" at Puppy Linux Discussion Forum. This topic has received a reply since your last visit. You can use the following link to view the replies made, no more notifications will be sent until you visit the topic.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?pX0612#580612

But, when you follow the link the forum reports:

The topic or post you requested does not exist

Happens on multiple threads.

Argolance · Posted: Mon 07 Nov 2011, 08:05 Post subject:

... I am watching several topics and it seems I don't have the problem described above.

Regards.

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

Thom/tlchost
This often happens when the post is spam, which gets removed...the forum software links to the post which when removed gives that message

Only explanation I can think of

Aitch Smile

Flash · Posted: Mon 07 Nov 2011, 09:13 Post subject:

Tclhost, the example URL you gave is malformed. The number which starts with pX should start with p=58. If your example is accurate, then that's why the forum gave you that error message.

The Overlords are messing with you. Laughing

Seriously, I've never gotten a malformed URL in a notification. Perhaps the error was created during transmission or by your ISP's email server rather than by the forum.

tlchost · Posted: Mon 07 Nov 2011, 15:07 Post subject:

Flash · Posted: Mon 07 Nov 2011, 16:44 Post subject:

I'm waiting and hoping for more input. Has it happened to anyone else?

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9387 Location: SwedenEurope

No not that I know of. But as Aitch point out
and you know too when spam get deleted
then it can point to something that does not exist anymore.

tlchost you can give an example that recreates what you talk about.

tlchost · Posted: Wed 09 Nov 2011, 00:26 Post subject: Duh

Here are some more examples:

Subject: Topic Reply Notification - URLs in forum notifications not right
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?pX0731#580731

Subject: Topic Reply Notification - HOW TO INSTALL A "WINE MENU"
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?pX0738#580738

Subject: Topic Reply Notification - Is Jemimah's original Puppeee still available?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?pX0786#580786

So...its highly unlikely that 3 threads had spam deletions....and highly unlikely that my isp finds notification messages from this forum and changes the link in the message. It's not very likely that my email does that either.

So........................from my viewpoint, I would say there is a problem with the forum software.

NB When I logged into the forum I saw there were 4 pages of new posts....but when I was in the first page and selected with next or the number 2 I get a message telling me the thread does not exist.

Please see above for reasons I don't think the problem is here.

Flash · Posted: Wed 09 Nov 2011, 00:58 Post subject:

All I can say is, if it happens to other people then yes, it must be the forum. But so far you're the only one. Anyone else? Anyone? Smile

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

I don't use notifications....but threads are usually of the form

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=73214

so maybe this is where the problem is, ....anyone else get notifications in the form [note, after php? difference]?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?pX0731#580731

Aitch Smile

tlchost · Posted: Wed 09 Nov 2011, 10:00 Post subject:

I was going to post a question the the phpBB forum....but realized that the version number display of phpBB has been disabled here.

Hard to report a problem if one can not give particulars.

Thom

tlchost · Posted: Wed 09 Nov 2011, 10:06 Post subject:

Flash · Posted: Wed 09 Nov 2011, 14:12 Post subject:

tlchost · Posted: Wed 09 Nov 2011, 16:22 Post subject:

drongo · Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 328 Location: UK

You can't have an equals sign in a valid URL. So presumably phpBB escapes it to something like = which something else (downstream from forum and upstream from Tom's eyeballs) is then mangling.

Stick a Wireshark pet in Puppy and you'll be able to determine whether it's incoming to you or whether something on your machine is mangling stuff.

I note that the four bogus digits between X and # are the same as the last four digits of the forum topic.