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For the last 2, 3 months I have been very busy and when I came back to this site I was faced with different problems:
- Subscribe option doesn't work (I don't receive any announcements about new posting)
- When I receive an email about one of my answers, and I try to follow the link, it opens a page with: "the question was withdrow", which is false.

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by thechas

You have run into 2 'features' (bugs) that were added to the site when TR did a major upgrade in August.

I have no answer to the problem with discussions or questions that you subscribed to.

However, for the problem with "the question has been withdrawn" simply click on the link in the e-mail a second time.

For each new session of IE, you need to enter the Tech Republic web site before the links to questions function properly.
The same is true for a favorites link to "All Questions".

Chas

by gigelul

If I click on the link a second time did not hapen nothing (only a refresh), but works if before that, I open a page from Techrepublic.

by oz_media

That just closing the Withdrawn Link page and then clicking the email link again it will open the second tim earound. I would suppose it is something to do with user login. The first time, it seems to open TR and authenticate your user id. the second time it opens the page. A little scripting boo-boo, but there's a few of those now.

by thechas

That's interesting.

Clicking on the link a second time works for me on 2 systems.

1 with W98 and IE / OE 5.5 SP2

The other with XP and IE / OE 6 SP1

Another 'feature' that you will find is the addition of random spaces to your posts.

Chas

by maxwell edison

You'll also notice that the search feature, especially for Discussions and Q&A, is not as good as it once was. In fact, I don't think it works anymore at all. I used to be able to search for certain subjects or keywords, but not anymore. For example, do a search for a past discussion with a known title, and it won't be found. (At least it hasn't worked for the ones I've searched for.)

There's also been a change in the list of Q&A and Discussions a member has participated in. In the past, I could have reviewed all of them, or perhaps most of them, by clicking on the member ID and following the "Q&As Participated in" link, but now it's limited to the twenty with the most recent activity. For example, look at the discussions or Q&A the you've participated in, and you see a list of twenty. There used to be an additional link to look at an expanded list. I could have easilly found a discussion I participated in 8 months ago, but not anymore.

I find both of these changes to be annoying at times. There have been times when I wanted to review some things I posted in past discussions, for example, but I can't quickly find it.

I don't know if all these changes have been designed, or are a side-effect of something else.

The user deleted problem, however, seems to have been corrected. And the time-out that used to occur when having a message reply window open too long is no longer an issue.

by road-dog

are having problems with the techrepublic.com.com name also.

I am not having problems like this at home, but on the corp. network it's causing IE crashes.

Although I like the increased speed and the reduced failure of submissions, I'm getting peeved at the browser craters.

by gigelul

The proxy cache on our Internet server was deleted and after that works, but with "techrepublic.com.com".

by gigelul

Many times I used this feature to find something.
I think that this is the biggest issue from my point of view.

by guruofdos

Perhaps it's just me, but I thought .com was a top level domain? So...how can anything be .com.com? Just one of those wierd and wacky things or what?

Having said that, a country code can follow a '.com' as in www.sis.com.tw or suchlike, but I didn't think .com.com was possible. Ah well, we live and learn!

by joseph moore

No, the domain COM.COM is, apparently, valid. Here is the CNET registrtion info for it:
Registrant:
CNET Networks, Inc (DOM-311541)
235 Second Street San Francisco CA 94105 US

Domain Name: com.com

Registrar Name: Alldomains.com
Registrar Whois: whois.alldomains.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.alldomains.com

Administrative Contact:
Host Master (NIC-1500677) CNET Networks, Inc
235 Second Street San Francisco CA 94105 US
hostmaster@cnet.com +1.4153442000
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Host Master (NIC-1500677) CNET Networks, Inc
235 Second Street San Francisco CA 94105 US
hostmaster@cnet.com +1.4153442000

Created on..............: 1995-Apr-13.
Expires on..............: 2013-Apr-14.
Record last updated on..: 2003-Sep-22 00:11:40.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS.CNET.COM 209.249.250.13
NS2.CNET.COM 206.16.0.71

What also exists is NET.NET and EDU.EDU

I also found that CO.CO.UK is Reserved.

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