Re: FN-FORUM Damn those UK2 people

date posted 11th September 2002 22:30

Hello

I have been a customer of uk2 for many years,
they are the only host I know which charge for
every single damn thing.



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> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 21:05:37 +0100
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> Subject: FN-FORUM Digest V1 #3595
>
>
> FN-FORUM Digest Wednesday, September 11 2002 Volume 01 : Number 3595
>
>
>
> RE: FN-FORUM XML problems
> RE: FN-FORUM XML problems
> FN-FORUM Birds
> FN-FORUM Debt Collection
> Re: FN-FORUM Damn those UK2 people
> RE: FN-FORUM php html emailer
> FN-FORUM Yet another site check...
> FN-FORUM Bird
> Re: FN-FORUM XML problems
> FN-FORUM Mailing list speed
> FN-FORUM Looking for an elusive Animated Gif Flash Movie
> Re: FN-FORUM Mailing list speed
> RE: FN-FORUM Looking for an elusive Animated Gif Flash Movie
> Re: FN-FORUM Yet another site check...
> Re: FN-FORUM XML problems
> Re: FN-FORUM Site Check Please
> Re: FN-FORUM 99.9% of websites are outdated
> RE: FN-FORUM Yet another site check...
> Re: FN-FORUM XML problems
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:33:41 +0100
> From: "Andrew Mottershead" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM XML problems
>
> You can't use an ampersand (&) in xml - you would use & instead -
> your code would read -
>
> target="http://www.someurl.co.uk/forums/conversation_display.asp?convers
> atio
> nID=22&topicID=7&topicName=Something&conversationName=Buy+to
> +Let">Have your say on this article
>
> Or similar
>
> regards
>
> Andrew Mottershead
> Web Developer
> Mindstream Web Design
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of
>> Norman Beresford
>> Sent: 11 September 2002 18:07
>> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> Subject: FN-FORUM XML problems
>>
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I've got a load of articles stored as XML. Some of the
>> articles contain links, which I've marked up like so:
>>
>> > target="http://www.someurl.co.uk/forums/conversation_display.a
>> sp?conversatio
>> nID=22&topicID=7&topicName=Something&conversationName=Buy+to+L
>> et">Have your say on this article
>>
>> However I'm getting an error thrown upsaying that it's
>> expecting a semicolon at the "topicID=" bit. I'm a real
>> begininer at those whole XML marlakey so I'm sure I'm missing
>> out something quite elementary. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Norman
>>
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> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:54:28 +0100
> From: "Norman Beresford" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM XML problems
>
> Hi Andrew
>
> Doing a bit of googling it looked that way. I was hoping that as it was
> within a string the parser wouldn't try to parse it. Hmmm, apparantly &
> shouldn't be used in URIs, & should be used in it's stead.
>
> Norman
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Andrew
>> Mottershead
>> Sent: 11 September 2002 18:34
>> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM XML problems
>>
>>
>> You can't use an ampersand (&) in xml - you would use & instead -
>> your code would read -
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:28:08 EDT
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: FN-FORUM Birds
>
> Can anyone recommend a site where I can download a picture of a bird. I want
> to use the picture on the cover of a training manual and therefore need
> copyright permission (I guess). I am particularly interested in carrier
> pigeons.
>
> Thanks
> Sherold
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:33:49 +0100
> From: "Lindsay Baugh" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: FN-FORUM Debt Collection
>
> Hi Ade
>
> wondering if anyone could remind me of the sites that were mentioned for
> the collection of small debts.>
>
> Here goes:
>
> http://www.courtservice.gov.uk/mcol/index.htm
>
> http://www.payontime.co.uk/news/news_main.html
>
> http://www.credit-to-cash.com/debt_collection/debt_recovery_portal.htm
>
> Hope this helps - good luck.
>
> Lindsay
>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:29:02 +0100
> From: "Paul J White" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Damn those UK2 people
>
>> Sorry, I'm being as helpful as I can...
>>
> OK sorry Dave, I'm just a bit frustrated...
>
>> You may have the 1471 facility on your phone, your monthly charge includes
>> that service but if you don't use it, they won't discount your standing
>> charge.
>>
> Yes, but they don't land me with a seperate charge for it. If UK2 were just
> honest and said the domain reg is £x and this includes blah, blah and blah I
> for one would be a lot happier. Anyway, from what I have gathered, it looks
> like I have to pay it, or I have to pay to have it transfered - so it's
> Hobson's choice. It's a bummer when you can't just double the cost and pass
> it on to a client ;-)
>
> Cheers, Paul.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:37:22 +0100
> From: "Dave Boulden" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM php html emailer
>
> Or replace the quote with ' or with ’ which is HMTL talk for ascii
> character 39 (a single quote)
>
> Dave.
>
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> - -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Mike Wynn
> Sent: 11 September 2002 18:04
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM php html emailer
>
>
> try
>
> $body = "you're a winner";
>
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robin Garbutt" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 4:21 PM
> Subject: FN-FORUM php html emailer
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a php html emailer that uses the following:-
>
> $to = $email;
> $subject = "test";
> $body = 'you're a winner';
>
> the problem is that it thinks the ' in you're is marking the end of the html
> and therefore erroring.
>
> How would I get it to print the ' ?
>
> tia!
>
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> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:29:58 +0100
> From: "Vavavoom" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: FN-FORUM Yet another site check...
>
> Hi peeps,
> sorry to add to your list of site checks but can you have a
> gander at this?
>
> www.demo-area.net/marcom_preflight
>
> To the guys on IRC - Yes, I've finally finished it!
>
> Any commments appreciated... some people have had problems so I'd like to
> get a view from a variety of systems/browsers...
>
>
> ta in advance...
>
> vav
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:41:57 EDT
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: FN-FORUM Bird
>
> Can anyone recommend a site where I can download a picture of a bird. I want
> to use the picture on the cover of a training manual and therefore need
> copyright permission (I guess). I am particularly interested in carrier
> pigeons.
>
> Please email [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
> Thanks
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:46:56 +0100
> From: "Mark Peter Mansell" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM XML problems
>
> The most obvious problem with this markup is that the ampersands aren't
> substituted by the '&' entity.
> Like in HTML, the ampersand is a special character in XML so must be treated
> specially (luckily using the same entities :) )
>
> Try changing that and seeing what happens.
>
> Also, go visit http://www.w3.org/XML/ for info on the XML standards.
>
> In fact a visit to http://www.w3.org/ is good for most things to do with the
> web as they are the arbitor and publisher of most of the 'true' standards .
>
> Mark
>
> (for XML, 2 good books are the Wrox Press 'Professional XML', a bit dated,
> but still excellent, and 'XML: Visual Quickstart' - VQuickStart is a little
> light, but very accessible)
>
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Norman Beresford" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 6:07 PM
> Subject: FN-FORUM XML problems
>
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I've got a load of articles stored as XML. Some of the articles contain
>> links, which I've marked up like so:
>>
>> >
> target="http://www.someurl.co.uk/forums/conversation_display.asp?conversatio
>> nID=22&topicID=7&topicName=Something&conversationName=Buy+to+Let">Have
> your
>> say on this article
>>
>> However I'm getting an error thrown upsaying that it's expecting a
> semicolon
>> at the "topicID=" bit. I'm a real begininer at those whole XML marlakey so
>> I'm sure I'm missing out something quite elementary. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Norman
>>
>>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:54:44 +0100
> From: "Mark Peter Mansell" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: FN-FORUM Mailing list speed
>
> I've been noticing that posts I've made to the list can take absolute ages
> to return. Is this something to do with the list server, or is there
> something else happening?
>
> The server I'm sending through is run by myself and currently has some 60
> odd other users. Speed is normal and quick with just about anywhere else.
>
> Just curious :)
>
> Mark
>
> PS. will a certain law cut in and this mail pop out in seconds.....
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:52:37 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Gaurav Malik [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: FN-FORUM Looking for an elusive Animated Gif Flash Movie
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Does anyone have a animated gif, or a flash animation for:
> You know that thing which you see at the beginning a film, which does
> a count down, the numbers decrease, each time there is a decrement
> there is a cross with double line.
>
> Would appreciate any help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gaurav
>
>
>
>
>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:04:08 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Gaurav Malik [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Mailing list speed
>
> Hey,
>
> Sent mine about 2 mins ago and it reached ok? Maybe congestion
> somewhere on the "information superhighway"
>
> regards,
>
> Gaurav
> - --- Mark Peter Mansell [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>>
>> I've been noticing that posts I've made to the list can take
>> absolute ages
>> to return. Is this something to do with the list server, or is
>> there
>> something else happening?
>>
>> The server I'm sending through is run by myself and currently has
>> some 60
>> odd other users. Speed is normal and quick with just about anywhere
>> else.
>>
>> Just curious :)
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> PS. will a certain law cut in and this mail pop out in seconds.....
>>
>>
>>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:05:14 +0100
> From: "Michael Beckett" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM Looking for an elusive Animated Gif Flash Movie
>
> Try Flashkit.com in the tutorials section
>
> Mike
> Denial Design
>
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Gaurav Malik
> Sent: 11 September 2002 19:53
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: FN-FORUM Looking for an elusive Animated Gif Flash Movie
>
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Does anyone have a animated gif, or a flash animation for:
> You know that thing which you see at the beginning a film, which does
> a count down, the numbers decrease, each time there is a decrement
> there is a cross with double line.
>
> Would appreciate any help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gaurav
>
>
>
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:15:32 +0100
> From: "Stephan Koern" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Yet another site check...
>
> Hi
>
> had just a quick look and I'm not a designer but it looks very nice. I would
> change the behaviour of the navigation bar. So the links are adjusting the
> section. Have a look here http://www.computacenter.co.uk.
>
> Nice work
> Stephan
>
>
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vavavoom" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 7:29 PM
> Subject: FN-FORUM Yet another site check...
>
>
>> Hi peeps,
>> sorry to add to your list of site checks but can you have a
>> gander at this?
>>
>> www.demo-area.net/marcom_preflight
>>
>> To the guys on IRC - Yes, I've finally finished it!
>>
>> Any commments appreciated... some people have had problems so I'd like to
>> get a view from a variety of systems/browsers...
>>
>>
>> ta in advance...
>>
>> vav
>>
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>> Bristol & Bath, UK
>> www.precisionguided.com
>> [EMAIL REMOVED]
>>
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>>
>>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:22:07 +0100
> From: "Shaf Cangil" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM XML problems
>
> Hi Norman,
> I happened to be studying this at the moment and I think I have the answer.
> XML uses something called ENTITY replacement, where the word after the
> ampersand '&' is replaced with text from the DTD (data Type Document) which
> accompanies the code.
>
> basically it looks like this...
> &word;
> so your code should read..
>
>
>
> target="http://www.someurl.co.uk/forums/conversation_display.asp?conversatio
> nID=22&topicID;=7&topicName;=Something&conversationName=Buy+to+Let">Have
> your
> say on this article
>
>
> where the word that is ampersanded is replaced ( like a function call that
> replaces the call with one word or sentance or another batch of code)
> I have not however come across as yet, the way it is used here (ie: with an
> '=' sign.)
> so I apologise if it still does not work.
>
> Let me know
>
> Shaf
> (STUDENT OF XML THE PAST 2 SLEEPLESS WEEKS)
>
>
>
>
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Norman Beresford" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 6:07 PM
> Subject: FN-FORUM XML problems
>
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I've got a load of articles stored as XML. Some of the articles contain
>> links, which I've marked up like so:
>>
>> >
> target="http://www.someurl.co.uk/forums/conversation_display.asp?conversatio
>> nID=22&topicID=7&topicName=Something&conversationName=Buy+to+Let">Have
> your
>> say on this article
>>
>> However I'm getting an error thrown upsaying that it's expecting a
> semicolon
>> at the "topicID=" bit. I'm a real begininer at those whole XML marlakey so
>> I'm sure I'm missing out something quite elementary. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Norman
>>
>>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:34:27 +0100
> From: Tam Stone [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Site Check Please
>
> Em wrote:
>
>>>
>>
>> If they're Dax's Perfect Popups, one popup window opens, displays,
>> then stays in the background until another link is clicked, then the
>> popup resizes to accomodate ( - sorry still no spell checker :-[ ) the
>> new image!
>>
>> See http://www.daxassist.com
>
> No, thats not what I mean, they literally open then close, all I get is
> a flash and its gone again.
>
> Tamsin
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:42:20 +0100
> From: "Shaf Cangil" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM 99.9% of websites are outdated
>
> what a fart.
>
> Shaf
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Mottershead" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 6:09 PM
> Subject: FN-FORUM 99.9% of websites are outdated
>
>
>> Just seen this on slashdot - might interest some forlk on the list:
>>
>> http://www.digital-web.com/features/feature_2002-09.shtml
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Andrew Mottershead
>> Web Developer
>> Mindstream Web Design
>>
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> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:57:43 +0100
> From: "Nick Gerig" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM Yet another site check...
>
> very nice......clean..etc
>
> the only comment would be that the font is a little fuzzy with good old
> flash anti-aliasing. I would maybe look for something a bit crisper.
>
> or you could always use device fonts?
>
>
> nick
>
> http://www.ibme.co.uk
>
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
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> Sent: 11 September 2002 19:30
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: FN-FORUM Yet another site check...
>
>
> Hi peeps,
> sorry to add to your list of site checks but can you have a
> gander at this?
>
> www.demo-area.net/marcom_preflight
>
> To the guys on IRC - Yes, I've finally finished it!
>
> Any commments appreciated... some people have had problems so I'd like to
> get a view from a variety of systems/browsers...
>
>
> ta in advance...
>
> vav
>
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> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 21:00:53 +0100
> From: "Shaf Cangil" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM XML problems
>
> ....oh B*llocks..
> yeah that too..
> Shaf
> ( back to the grindstone)
>
> Shaf
>
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Peter Mansell" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 6:46 PM
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM XML problems
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>
>> The most obvious problem with this markup is that the ampersands aren't
>> substituted by the '&' entity.
>> Like in HTML, the ampersand is a special character in XML so must be
> treated
>> specially (luckily using the same entities :) )
>>
>> Try changing that and seeing what happens.
>>
>> Also, go visit http://www.w3.org/XML/ for info on the XML standards.
>>
>> In fact a visit to http://www.w3.org/ is good for most things to do with
> the
>> web as they are the arbitor and publisher of most of the 'true' standards
> .
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> (for XML, 2 good books are the Wrox Press 'Professional XML', a bit dated,
>> but still excellent, and 'XML: Visual Quickstart' - VQuickStart is a
> little
>> light, but very accessible)
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Norman Beresford" [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 6:07 PM
>> Subject: FN-FORUM XML problems
>>
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I've got a load of articles stored as XML. Some of the articles contain
>>> links, which I've marked up like so:
>>>
>>> >>
>>
> target="http://www.someurl.co.uk/forums/conversation_display.asp?conversatio
>>> nID=22&topicID=7&topicName=Something&conversationName=Buy+to+Let">Have
>> your
>>> say on this article
>>>
>>> However I'm getting an error thrown upsaying that it's expecting a
>> semicolon
>>> at the "topicID=" bit. I'm a real begininer at those whole XML marlakey
> so
>>> I'm sure I'm missing out something quite elementary. Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Norman
>>>
>>>
>>
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