Along with checking the cookies, you can just remove the entry from the
Auto-fill list rather then unsubscribing and re subscribing. Go to
Safari's preferences, click on the edit button for whichever one of the
three storage places is appropriate for the site and then select that
form from the list that will appear, delete it, then go visit the site
filling in the form as need be and then save in Auto fill when you know
it is okay.
Jerry
On May 23, 2004, at 4:42 PM, Henri Yandell wrote:
>
> Let's focus on some specifics.
>
> Pick a couple of the sites which seem the worst [Washington Post/BBC?]
> and
> email the url/locations of the pages where you enter your email address
> [as I'll admit to being too daft to know which they might be].
>
> I assume the address is the insightbb.com one [unsure where Rob is
> getting
> the 'list' from]. Also supply the actual output you get on failing.
> Sounds
> like Washington is a website error while the BBC sends the error in an
> email?
>
> Looking at the source to the Washington site, they do a lot of cookie
> manipulation. Could you have disabled cookies at some point in the
> past?
> [Preferences->Security->Cookie buttons]. I could see how not being
> able to
> do cookies would confuse the hell out of the washington form.
>
> All I can think of,
>
> Hen
>
> On Sun, 23 May 2004, Marta Edie wrote:
>
>> Well, Rob and Hen, this is my progress: I have been trying a number of
>> websites ( all newspapers) and in the Pref. in Safari I had unchecked
>> the button where it says under auto-fill using info from my address
>> book. I was going to uncheck all of them,each one at a time. Now the
>> Wash. Post's filler-upper still told me (javascript ) the e-mail addr.
>> was invalid, but then came another webpage telling me I am subscribed
>> with this same e-mail. So I closed up, opened up and it worked, shows
>> up in my keychain now, also. BBC news as such have always been ok,
>> but
>> getting special e-mails went like this : invalid e-mail address, but
>> with it came an e-mail to that same address in my mail (
>> simultaneously) telling me to finish up the third step, namely
>> clicking
>> on the given url to really signe me up, wich I did and then things
>> went ok. So i am still a little dizzy from these new possibilities,
>> after I get through with all this, I shall then have to unsubscribe to
>> all of these e-mail news I have subscribed to, just to figure this
>> out. Ih ave come to believe there is a failure between this Java
>> pulldown menu and its Safari connection. Sometimes now I also get a
>> message that I cannot access a website, while the website appears
>> anyhow. Another angle , though connected as i see it.
>> Marta
>> On May 23, 2004, at 14:14, Robert Kersting wrote:
>>
>>> I don't mean to jump away from the philosophical discussion, but your
>>> email problem might be as simple as having the word "list" in your
>>> address.
>>>
>>> It could be the webmaster has filtered the word "list" to be sure the
>>> user is a human being and not a listbot.
>>>
>>> Just a thought.
>>>
>>> rob
>>>
>>> Marta Edie wrote:
>>>> Now Kay, the first thing I learned about computers is that they
>>>> cannot
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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>
>
>
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