To Patrick

[Chris F]

Patrick,

Te board will not let me post the end of my story due to "Promotional reasons".

Coul you tell me what the problem is???

Thanks

[Patrick]

... in response to To Patrick, posted by Chris F on Jul 28, 2003

One of two things is happening.  If you're posting a URL of a site that's been placed on the spam list here after they used the board for promotion, the software will catch it and not allow it.

You could also be falsely tripping the spam guard.  There have been some errors where a string of innocent text trips the spam alarm.  I just went in and deleted a bunch of site URLs that were placed on the spammers list a long time ago.  Try your post again.  If it still trips the alarm, trying either taking out any URLs or replacing the .com with DOTcom or something similar.  The anti-spam software goes to a higher security level for any post that has .com in it and uses stricter rules for finding spam URLs if it sees a .com anywhere in the post.

[Michael B]

... in response to To Patrick, posted by Chris F on Jul 28, 2003

Just a guess, but most likely you are trying to post the URL of a banned agency that has 'promoted' itself. Patrick doesn't mind agency owners saying something like "disclaimer, just so you know, I manage XYZ agency" at the end of an otherwise legit post or like Edge saying "my mother in law delivers floweres flowers and gifts in Cali" when/if somebody specificly asks "How can I send flowers?" , but he has banned a few agencies that simply post pure old spam without contributing any information. If your post contains one of them, it won't make it through the filter. You can still post the name of the agency (I think), just can't post their link.