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Woo hoo awesome Chris. Many thanks 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Seeing perfectly genuine messages appearing in the spam moderation queue - including one from Kent in Insider News ... he's not that dodgy is he? 
But loads of black magic appeared in QA a short while ago.
[Edit - just had to authorise this post as well ]
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Yep - the spam filter is relearning. It should be good now, but if it traps messages then the best thing to do is approve them and move on. It'll learn
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris said: the best thing to do is approve them and move on
Did my stint yesterday in UK timezone
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Thanks mate 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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When making a search, deleted messages also show up if they match the search keywords. I believe this shouldn't happen.
The quick brown ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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The list of available licenses is too short and doesn't cover a lot of cases:
- There are 3 varieties of BSD license: 4-clause (old), 3-clause (new), 2-clause (newest). Both 3-clause and 2-clause are widely used.
- There are more versions of MPL license, not just 1.1. Firefox is licensed under MPL 2.0, for example. It is also partially viral (it infects files), so the info is incorrect.
- Among Creative Commons license family, only CC-BY-SA-2.5, CC-BY-SA-3.0, CC-BY-3.0 and CC-BY-ND-3.0 are present. Why only these versions and varieties? The current version of CC family of licenses is 4.0.
- Among GPL license family, only LGPLv3 and GPLv3 are present. Where's AGPL? Where are older versions? Linux is licensed GPLv2 and it isn't changing anytime soon. AGPL may not have gained popularity, but several popular projects use it.
- All varities of "public domain" inspired licenses are not present, including CC0, Unlicense, WTFPL etc.
- A crazy number of licenses specific to languages and environments are missing, like PHP, Python etc.
Furthermore, article text and code can be covered by different licenses (for example, text under CC-BY, code under BSD) and both may be covered by multiple licenses (for example, some popular projects are dual-licensed GPL/commercial). The requirement to choose just one license from a very short list forces authors to provide incorrect and incomplete information.
Also, the "default license" CPOL isn't OSI approved, isn't FSF approved, isn't GPL compatible, but that's a different matter, which no one at Code Project seems to care about. Come on, is forbidding "immoral or improper" usage so much more important than compatibility with the rest of the world?
Overall, licensing functionality is badly broken.
I suggest adding a complete OSI list, at least. Ideally, I'd prefer being able to provide a custom license. Also, separate licenses for article text and code, as well as multi-licensing should be supported. Fixing CPOL would be nice too, but I don't believe it'll happen.
P.S. When I posted my article some time ago, the editor said that MLP 2.0 will be added. Well, two years later, still nothing has changed. Now I want to post an article licensed under CC-BY-4.0, with code licensed under WTFPL* (aka "public comain for jurisdictions disallowing public domain"), which in turn relies on third-paty code under MIT, BSD 3-clause "New" and BSD 2-clause "Simplified". I have no idea what on Earth I am supposed to choose in the license dropdown. I guess I can choose CC-something-3.0 for both the text and and the code, but it would be a lie.
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In April I posted a message here[^] and it got a reply, but both messages are gone now, probably due to the data move.
[Edit]
I noticed the same in some other restricted forums, like the Moderators' Forum and the Mentors' Forum. Some of the recent messages are gone.
The quick brown ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
modified 31-May-15 6:22am.
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Should be good now.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It is fixed for the group I linked, but some messages are still lost in the Moderators' Forum and Mentors' Forum.
The quick brown ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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Posted a message[^] to this article[^].
The author replied.
I just went to reply to his reply and it's all disappeared.
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Lounge sticky post: I didn't delete it this time, honest!
Loads of QA questions and answers: The "unanswered" list goes
38 mins ago
1 hr ago
1 hr ago
2 hrs ago
3 days ago
20-Jan-15
... And the "New" list is similarly truncated.
Tell me you didn't use that spammer "packers and movers" company that keeps trying to advertise that they leave stuff behind?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They left a box of messages behind one of the trucks. Found them. They are a bit damp though due to the rain.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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ToDoList[^] seems to have lost the first 5 months of comments.
FWIW this manifested immediately after cancelling a article edit by 'Reverting to the last published version'.
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Might be related to the move (some things seem to be out of whack right now)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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All fixed.
We need to do a general re-caching of the forums. but in the meantime if there is a forum that looks odd just post the URL and I'll kick.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Every time I try to upload a profile picture I get the following message:
Quote: Something bad happened
We're not sure what, but we have a few guesses.
Problem: Illegal characters in path.
Ticket: 0
Server: Web03
Known problem or just an ugly picture? 
// Magnus
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Could be related to the recent Gravatar addition.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Magnus Rindeberg wrote: Illegal characters in path.
Dumb question, did your filename have illegal characters in it?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Quote: MagnusProfilePicture_small_bw.jpg
Tried it twice from two different computers using two different pictures, just to make sure....
// M
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Facing similar problem. I tried to upload from two different browsers but no luck:
Something bad happened
We are not sure what, but we have a few guesses.
Problem: Illegal characters in path.
Ticket: 0
Server: Web04
Steps to reproduce:
1) Uncheck the Use my Gravatar checkbox.
2) Click on "Choose file" and select a .jpg file C:\image.jpg in the pop up dialog box.
3) Click on "Save my Settings" button and the above error pops up.
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Now I got it working by first unchecking "Use my Gravatar" then saving settings followed by "Choose file" and saving settings again.
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This workaround worked for me.. Thanks!!
However, the bug is still there..
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The "clear all" button the notification page doesn't seem to work lately (different browsers and different machines). There's still that popup and some waiting, but then the page reloads and nothing happened.
Selecting all items and hitting "clear selected" does work.
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