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mouser:
gothic and i are sitting here experimenting with blocking access to the forum with old SESSIONID info in urls.
please let me know if anyone gets errors explicitly about this while they are surfing the site.

f0dder:
gothic and i are sitting here experimenting with blocking access to the forum with old SESSIONID info in urls.
please let me know if anyone gets errors explicitly about this while they are surfing the site.
-mouser (May 31, 2009, 03:24 AM)
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Sounds like a good move - I assume this is to make jacking somebody else sessions harder?

mouser:
Sounds like a good move - I assume this is to make jacking somebody else sessions harder?
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yes.

mouser:
Some people who have been used to surfing the dc forum without cookies enabled are reporting getting the new error page and having some trouble enabling cookies or otherwise getting pages to load.  We'll see if we can make this a bit smoother.

JennyB:
Some people who have been used to surfing the dc forum without cookies enabled are reporting getting the new error page and having some trouble enabling cookies or otherwise getting pages to load.  We'll see if we can make this a bit smoother.
-mouser (May 31, 2009, 12:31 PM)
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Not sure if this is related, but six new topics turned up in the Google reader feed yesterday that I can't access, and don't appear on the forum Topic list. They all seem to be productivity-related, and were posted between

Shutdown, after turning off specific programs, or running others.
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