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by emark
Mon Aug 26, 2013 7:05 pm
Forum: administrivia and technical support
Topic: IMPORTANT: Bus admins' e-mail address not working
Replies: 3
Views: 8649

Re: IMPORTANT: Bus admins' e-mail address not working

I noticed my own busmail.org email address isn't working either (it receives emails from busboard, but emails from any other addresses bounce, error message "550 #5.1.0 Address rejected."). I don't know if this is affecting all busmail.org addresses, or just some of them.
by emark
Sun Aug 18, 2013 10:55 pm
Forum: administrivia and technical support
Topic: The spam on this board is OUT OF CONTROL.
Replies: 29
Views: 21486

Re: The spam on this board is OUT OF CONTROL.

I think the key question is: What options does the phpBB software allow (including newer versions if relevant)? I mean, it's all very well criticising the spam-prevention features of phpBB, but that's not something the admins here can resolve. There is some info from phpBB at https://www.phpbb.com/c...
by emark
Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:26 am
Forum: administrivia and technical support
Topic: strange happenings?
Replies: 19
Views: 1601

Same here - both buslist.org and busmail.org went (at slightly different times - busmail.org was still working for a while). They redirected to: buslist.org: 69.25.27.173 busmail.org: 66.150.161.140 I had a slight panic as this wasn't just the webboard (and email list, presumably), but also everyone...
by emark
Mon Jul 02, 2007 11:17 am
Forum: administrivia and technical support
Topic: Windows Vista...What We Know
Replies: 23
Views: 2512

Well yeah, people should stick with what works for them. Personally I'm happy sticking with XP and even 2000, it has all the features I need, and won't for now being switching to Vista (or OS X, or anything else). All operating systems tend to take features off of each other, some come first in Mac ...
by emark
Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:54 pm
Forum: administrivia and technical support
Topic: Windows Vista...What We Know
Replies: 23
Views: 2512

the minimum system requirements for vista are hefty (1 GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 28 VRAM). especially since i can run the latest version of OSX on a computer with a 466 MHz CPU, 640 MB RAM, and 16MB VRAM; and OSX is basically what they ripped off to create vista. Is that what Leopard will require? I mean, ...
by emark
Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:16 am
Forum: administrivia and technical support
Topic: can't get into bus by typing the url
Replies: 4
Views: 543

Re: can't get into bus by typing the url

What about trying www.buslist.org/phpBB/ (with a '/' on the end)?
by emark
Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:22 pm
Forum: administrivia and technical support
Topic: Windows Vista...What We Know
Replies: 23
Views: 2512

Re: Windows Vista...What We Know

Well yes, my first thought was that it's AOL that's buggy, not Vista ;) More generally, this is the problem - not bugs, but some companies have been shockingly bad at updating software to cope with, or even simply recognise Vista. I tried to install Tesco's Internet Dial Up on my parents' new laptop...
by emark
Sat Jun 09, 2007 12:47 am
Forum: administrivia and technical support
Topic: Busmail Problems? Account Locked
Replies: 2
Views: 432

Re: Busmail Problems? Account Locked

I also tried at work and have the same problem, so it doesn't seem to be specific to my machine or IP address...
by emark
Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:24 pm
Forum: administrivia and technical support
Topic: Busmail Problems? Account Locked
Replies: 2
Views: 432

Busmail Problems? Account Locked

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask, but is anyone having troubles with their busmail email account? My email client (Eudora) fails when I try to download email, with the message "ERR Can't get lock. Mailbox in use". I tried telnetting in manually via pop (port 110), and I get: +OK POP...
by emark
Sat May 05, 2007 2:05 am
Forum: administrivia and technical support
Topic: Mobile browsers
Replies: 16
Views: 1644

Re: Mobile browsers

I'm writing this with opera mini. It'll work with just about any phone (so long as it can do java) no need for expensive PDAs ;)

Edit: Get it from http://www.operamini.com/ .
by emark
Sun Jul 23, 2006 6:59 pm
Forum: administrivia and technical support
Topic: quote not working right
Replies: 83
Views: 4117

Note that you can get it to work by not including the persons name - i.e., just [quote] instead of [quote=whoever].
by emark
Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:28 am
Forum: administrivia and technical support
Topic: Annoying As All Hell
Replies: 20
Views: 2192

just outta curiosity, does opera work on macs? if so, does it work well? It's available for several OSs, including Mac and Linux: http://www.opera.com/download/ I've only used it on Windows, so I don't know how well it works on other OSs, but I don't see why it wouldn't. does it have some features ...
by emark
Sun Nov 06, 2005 12:28 am
Forum: administrivia and technical support
Topic: Annoying As All Hell
Replies: 20
Views: 2192

aquana wrote:am I the only one here who uses Opera :o
I use Opera too!

It's a shame it never seemed to become "trendy" to switch from IE until Firefox appeared, years after Opera was around. I guess people didn't like the adverts - though Opera is now free without adverts, for anyone who hasn't heard.
by emark
Sun Nov 06, 2005 12:24 am
Forum: administrivia and technical support
Topic: Windows/Explorer/Outlook Express
Replies: 13
Views: 1067

I really want to get Linux, but don't really know how to go about doing that...windows XP is better than 2000 or ME (unless you're running a network, than 2000 is okay) but that's not saying a whole lot. (especially because ME was truly awful) Can I ask how XP is better than 2000? I mean yes, I kno...
by emark
Sun Nov 06, 2005 12:22 am
Forum: administrivia and technical support
Topic: Windows/Explorer/Outlook Express
Replies: 13
Views: 1067

Re: Windows/Explorer/Outlook Express

In my opinion, Windows is fine these days - it may or may not be as stable as other OSs, but it's reasonable nonetheless. I feel that a lot of the "Windows is so unstable" is a carryover from Windows 9x/Me days (which is an entirely different OS, which *was* very unstable - but then again, so were v...
by emark
Sun Jun 26, 2005 4:42 pm
Forum: administrivia and technical support
Topic: Busmail problems
Replies: 6
Views: 764

Re: Busmail problems

I've got it working on Eudora now, by going to the Properties for the Account, and telling it to accept the certificate. But unfortunately I can't work out how to do this in Outlook Express. It looks like the server has been changed to use SSL (means the data is encrypted), but it seems to be someth...
by emark
Sun Jun 26, 2005 4:18 pm
Forum: administrivia and technical support
Topic: Busmail problems
Replies: 6
Views: 764

Re: Busmail problems

I'm having the same problem. On Eudora I get "SSL Negotiation Failed: Certificiate Error: Cert Chain not trusted. Try adding this certificate to your certificate database for SSL to succeed".

And I have the same problems on the busmail web interface.