h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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"...ERROR 500 THE WORLD WIDE WEB WHAT RUBBISH BLA BLA BLA SH*TE."

Lord Reith? Is that you?

"REMOVE ME"... I suspect this could be the AntiHoover. He wants to quit but hasn't. Could it be the DayDyson?

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I really think you guys need to stop harrassing the mentally ill. It is sort of like shooting foxes, it´s not proper.

I think we should all reach out the hand of h2g2 community friendship to our highly-respected uppercase friend.

I for one will be *adding* him to my friends list

What happened here?

Just a minor spot of mental tension - nothing to see now - all over.

Ah, ok. Thanks for the explanation.

Breakfast?

>penguin, actually<

As a fellow avian, I feel I should applause that comeback.

As a parrot and not a penguin but appreciating the differences, I do too

At least its not as bad as Fish and Dragon Mix ups.

He did make one interesting point:

>>OVER LOADED SERVERS
>>NO ONE ON LINE THESE DAYS

It has been rather quiet this week. I'm sure people have been using the rest of the BBC though

Does anyone else get logged out periodically? And if you ignore it you get logged back in without having to do anything. It just happened to me again about 20 minutes ago.

Yup. It happens a lot these days, and is made more irritating by the fact that whoever wrote the error message never considered that the problem might be at the BBC end. Basically, their server fails to authenticate your password (perhaps because it is "too busy!") and then you are presented with an insulting list of all the things *you* might have done wrong. But if you don't log back in and just leave it, next time you come back you're logged in again without comment.

It's this flaw in the system that has led to dozens of messageboard users re-registering over and over again because they keep being told they've "forgotten" their passwords.

Crikey, that would be very annoying.

I have logged in a few times when it's happened, so maybe it's more straightforward on hootoo.

Hi Menthol Penguin. Just wanted to quickly explain. We've removed your post quoting the rather offensive language used in a post above, because that original post has now since been removed, and we wanted to stay consistent. We appreciate you were just quoting what was said to you...

No problem, I hadn't even realised it was gone.

"Does anyone else get logged out periodically? And if you ignore it you get logged back in without having to do anything. It just happened to me again about 20 minutes ago."

Happened to me this morning. The BBC really do need to get their act together and Actually say "Sorry our servers are old and totally rubbish, we are trying but, well, you can't get the staff. Just keep bumbling along and we'll trot out the same old tired excuses"

Honesty and originality would be nice for once, I've been here for 8 years and I've heard all these excuses before