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23 July, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 28 July, 2004 - 1000hrs BST
Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Jul 24, 2004
Traveller in Time 
on his head
"SEF post was hidden due to premoderation.
The visible subject line was 'REMOVED' (the confusing part as lots of researchers think it already has failed for publishing).
Replying directly to such posting shows 'Hidden' as subject line.
And I think this can be considered topic drift as there is not likely something to change in the way moderation takes place. (though I think SEF has been in premoderation long enough).
Aside that the premoderation tools are flags behind the postings, we do not see them, the effect however is visible.
These flags can be seen as part of the 'Back-End'. While the effect, posting visible or an alternative visible, can be concidered 'Front-End'.
"
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moxonthemoon Posted Jul 24, 2004
ah back end fixes, silly me 
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Jul 28, 2004
Traveller in Time stuck in the morning jam
"How is the traffic this morning?
Estimated Time of Announced Server Down in 100 minutes ? "
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Smij - Formerly Jimster Posted Jul 28, 2004
We should point out that we're hoping this downtime will also fix some of the problems we've been having with the Search engine this week, although an investigation into the causes of the problems is still on-going.
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Demon Drawer Posted Jul 28, 2004
Ok Batten down the hatches. I'm off for training jsut now. See you all on the other side.
ahoy
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Jul 28, 2004
Traveller in Time wearing a helmet
"Ten minutes for impact .
Hmm, what is this huge thing comming closer to me ?
Let us call it Real Life (well, just for a minute then)"
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GreyDesk Posted Jul 28, 2004
"See you all on the other side"
For some reason I know have this mental image of DD in a pair of leather trousers, doing a Jim Morrison impersonation 
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Jul 28, 2004
Traveller in Time on his head
"Hi there"
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Geggs Posted Jul 28, 2004
Morning.
Did anyone do anything interesting when Reality struck?
Gegs
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Jul 28, 2004
I sent an email that I probably wouldn't have otherwise 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jul 28, 2004
I installed "Premiere" on my other machine... 
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Demon Drawer Posted Jul 28, 2004
I carried on working with hootoo in the background
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Demon Drawer Posted Jul 28, 2004
Now I know how to give GD nightmares.
*dons sou wester and wind cheater*
Riders of the storm boom doom.
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Jul 28, 2004
Has anyone noticed those numbers under the text box on the reply to page? Please tell me they weren't there before and that I haven't only just noticed them.
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kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 Posted Jul 28, 2004
*replies in order to have a look*
I hadn't noticed that before either.
Doesn't mean it wasn't there though...
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You can call me TC Posted Jul 28, 2004
*does the same*
... so - what do they mean? Is it the number of posts I have ever made on hootoo perhaps?
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Jul 28, 2004
I have no idea, but I'm sure they haven't been there before
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Jul 28, 2004
The number appears to be wildly different each time...
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Coniraya Posted Jul 28, 2004
Curious
The line that said something like 'click here to return to the conversation without contributing' has disappeared.
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GreyDesk Posted Jul 28, 2004
The numbers under the text box have been reported as a bug. It doesn't look like a serious one, so perhaps it should be downgraded to a 'feature'
Key: Complain about this post
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- 41: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Jul 24, 2004)
- 42: moxonthemoon (Jul 24, 2004)
- 43: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Jul 28, 2004)
- 44: Smij - Formerly Jimster (Jul 28, 2004)
- 45: Demon Drawer (Jul 28, 2004)
- 46: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Jul 28, 2004)
- 47: GreyDesk (Jul 28, 2004)
- 48: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Jul 28, 2004)
- 49: Geggs (Jul 28, 2004)
- 50: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Jul 28, 2004)
- 51: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jul 28, 2004)
- 52: Demon Drawer (Jul 28, 2004)
- 53: Demon Drawer (Jul 28, 2004)
- 54: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Jul 28, 2004)
- 55: kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 (Jul 28, 2004)
- 56: You can call me TC (Jul 28, 2004)
- 57: aka Bel - A87832164 (Jul 28, 2004)
- 58: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Jul 28, 2004)
- 59: Coniraya (Jul 28, 2004)
- 60: GreyDesk (Jul 28, 2004)
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