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I haven't been able to get through to x-prodigy. I keep getting a screen that seems to indicate they've been deleted because they haven't paid their bills. Would anyone here know anything about that?

Nope - you know as much as I do. No access since yesterday evening.

I'll stick a question on the Phoenix Gate to see if anybody's there that might know something.

Henry

thread on Phoenix Gate about xProdigy BB

I sent Bill an email this afternoon and I just heard from him. His web host suspended his account for excessive bandwidth usage. He suspects some script run by the forum software and he has disabled them, but he didn't tell me what function they perform on the forum. The support person told him that the account would be suspended again if this didn't work.

At the moment he's planning to install new forum software right away. I don't know what kind; the forum we have been testing is ugly and difficult to use. Keep your fingers crossed that he finds something better.

excessive bandwidth usage

Well that can't be us cuz I'm about the only one uses emoticons over there. However my security lock does come on while I'm over there so something in the software @ x-prodigy is doing something to annoy that lock. It's just mostly a little red dot on the bottom border of my browser and when I left click on it I get a balloon that says something is being blocked.

I got an email from Bill this morning; he's going to use a BB just like this one that he installed last year. I told him the one he wanted to use was too complicated. He just has to upgrade to the most recent version and we will be back in business. The BB is already created, just a few test posts there.

As of a few moments ago the first page was there but not the forum.

The thing MSoft Firewall doesn't like is a d/l from att/SBC. There is an ad for them on the first page but I'd noticed it had been x-ed out for a couple of days prior to the place closing down.

Here's hoping the new software pleases the gods in charge over there.

As I told Donahoo, this forum program uses almost no bandwidth to run. The smilies pull the most, and that is still a small part. He will do well with this program. It's also the most stable and easiest to install.
I installed one today in less than 30 minutes including changing the color sceme from inside.

I installed one today in less than 30 minutes including changing the color sceme from inside

That's about how long it takes me to get a new &$$%& product out of the %^&*$ shrinkwrapped package!

Xjmt wrote:That's about how long it takes me to get a new &$$%& product out of the %^&*$ shrinkwrapped package!

That reminds me of the time I got a new CD. My husband asked if I didn't want to listen to it on the way home and I told him that by the time I got it out of the packaging, we would already be home.

The new site is here: http://xprodigy.net/board/index.php - now everybody go and register for it. There will be links to the old forum in "read-only" format.