How come you can't contribute an answer to Flash's post entitled "The Battle for your Mind?" If you click on "contribute an answer" you are sent to an unavailable Yahoo.geo page. What gives?

-- Very (Grateful@still.here), March 28, 2000

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My dear Very,

I see what you mean...I tried to hit the contribute an answear, and was briefly going to a geocities site, then I got a "The publisher refuses to allow you acess". Strange! Do you think that A Scientoligist hacker has "tinkered" with Flash's posting?

"As for me..I shall finish the Game"!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Shakey~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-- Shakey (in_a_bunker@forty.feet), March 28, 2000.

Thanks for your answer Shakey. That's an excellent deduction.

-- Very (Grateful@still.here), March 28, 2000.

Nope, it looks like it's coming from Debbie's post in this line

BASE HREF="http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/8627/"

I'm no HTML expert but it looks like this is changing the base reference for the reply button and taking you to the geocities site to post a reply. That's why you're getting the not found error.

-- Jim Cooke (JJCooke@yahoo.com), March 29, 2000.

Duh!!! Sorry about this....

Was going to go in and re-set the BASE HREF to the current URL, but of course that requires being ABLE to "Contribute an Answer." (I will email OTFR to alert him/her to the problem, if someone hasn't already.)

Of all the threads for it to happen to. :^)

It is better to have complete URL's for all objects and avoid such a command altogether. And now I am curious - would the BASE HREF for the reply button be "http://hv.greenspun.bboard/" ? It looks like it is. But maybe I'll go test it out in the HTML forum.

A word to the wise (me) was apparently not sufficient. "Watch yer HTML, please....... "

-- Debbie (dbspence@usa.net), March 29, 2000.

Debbie,

I can't tell what the BASE REF for the reply button is although Greenspun would make sense.

This type of loose programming on Greenspun's part is a little disturbing. I know you had no evil intentions but it wouldn't take much to change the base reference to another web site that would have a self-running javascript virus and raise all sorts of havoc. Most web sites make redirection impossible to prevent this and Greenspun should have done the same thing.

-- Jim Cooke (JJCooke@yahoo.com), March 29, 2000.

It seems like a command that could do more harm than the good that is gained by it! To save some typing, you muck up your frame of reference, and then if at all inclined to ADD, forget completely that you even did it.

Oh well, this is starting to sound awfully familiar! All shortcuts have their good side, and their pitfalls. Got preps?

-- Debbie (dbspence@usa.net), March 29, 2000.