By Pie Guevara
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Representative Steve Scalise, 2019-10-31
For those having occasional trouble posting comments to Post Scripts —
I do not know this for a fact, it is just a guess. Post Scripts comments are scanned by a spam detecting service. It could be that when a comment submission fails the connection to the spam filtering service is slow or the spam filtering server is overloaded effectively halting the comment submission process. I suspect this is the case because when I make a comment from the submission form in a Post Scripts blog page and it fails I am still able to log onto the server on which the Post Scripts blog is written.
Just wait and try again a few minutes later or save your comment in a text file and try to submit it much later.
Re: Steve Scalise–Bravo, sir. From your lips to God’s ears.
Re: Posting issues. I’m sure you noticed my last comment chopped into pieces. I did save it in MS Word and tried posting it several times over the better part of a day. No go then, but has worked in the past.
I thought perhaps posting it piecemeal might help to isolate the issue. Nope. What I was able to post was increasingly smaller pieces. The included links didn’t seem to matter. As I said, the very last sentence of text simply would not post. It did not occur to me at the time to try re-typing the sentence myself. IIRC, I’ve only had issues when attempting to paste in material from other sources. If I’m just typing text here, it works.
Hope this help.
That is weird. I was wondering about that. MS Word documents may contain hidden proprietary formatting codes that could be messing things up. You could try exporting saved comments or comments composed in MS Word as a text (.txt) file. This should strip any MS Word formatting down to ASCII or Unicode. When re-opened in MS Word after a text file save, it should be stripped.
Also you can try using Windows Notepad.exe for composition or saving a comment and for copying and pasting stuff from web pages into it to strip any hidden formatting and HTML code. Be sure to finish by using Format > deselect Word Wrap so that the text is not wrapped before executing Edit > Select All (or Cntrl+A) and copying it as that can cause extra carriage returns.
Lastly, there are other methods to strip hidden formatting using copy and paste on the fly. See How to Paste Text Without the Extra Formatting or do a search for “strip formatting copy and paste.”
I have the same or similar issues with posting, but I write directly in the PS comment, so the MS formatting doesn’t apply to me. Most of my rejected comments do have links, but have also had ones without. I thought it was caused by the fact the ER’s site is noted in the URL bar as, “Not Secure.”
Most of my comments are rejected with a notice the internet site is not available, even though my computer is connected and PS and it’s still there when I return to it.
Hope this helps.
This is why I think the notice may be generated when the spam service cannot be reached. I have no means to check on the problem as I do not work for the Chico ER IT department. Perhaps we should contact them. What do you think, Jack?
Branco’s Monday morning ‘toon captures BullSchifft perfectly!
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/11/branco-cartoon-court-is-in-session/