Re: more PPG woes?

2018-08-21 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
How did you do that? I can't even reach the site now. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 12:45 PM Jostein wrote: > PPG has gone stale. > I have removed my files from the gallery and requested that my account > be closed and removed. There's no

Re: more PPG woes?

2018-08-21 Thread Paul Stenquist
Ricoh does some marketing and apparently has deals with B&H, Amazon and others to promote Pentax products. That’s efficient marketing. PPG is hugely inefficient. It has to be staffed and maintained, and then for it to be effective, it has to be promoted. Not a good way to spend a thin marketing

Re: more PPG woes?

2018-08-21 Thread P. J. Alling
The PPG was a creature of Pentax marketing, itself a kind of unicorn, at best an afterthought since sometime in the 70's. RIcoh has aparently contracted the Asahi marketing disease which seems to amount to if you build it they will come.  Unfortunately if you don't advertise it who will know...

Re: more PPG woes?

2018-08-20 Thread Mark Roberts
d...@dougbrewerphoto.com wrote: >> On Aug 20, 2018, at 12:44 PM, Jostein wrote: >> >> PPG has gone stale. >> I have removed my files from the gallery and requested that my account be >> closed and removed. There's no button for opting out. >> >PPG went stale about six months after it opened, o

Re: more PPG woes?

2018-08-20 Thread d...@dougbrewerphoto.com
PPG went stale about six months after it opened, once they stopped paying any attention to it. Sent from my evil super-villain lair, mobile headquarters > On Aug 20, 2018, at 12:44 PM, Jostein wrote: > > PPG has gone stale. > I have removed my files from the gallery and requested that my acco

Re: more PPG woes?

2018-08-20 Thread Ken Waller
The Pentax gallery is like the hotel Hollywood. -Original Message- >From: Jostein >Subject: Re: more PPG woes? > >PPG has gone stale. >I have removed my files from the gallery and requested that my account >be closed and removed. There's no button for opting

Re: more PPG woes?

2018-08-20 Thread Jostein
PPG has gone stale. I have removed my files from the gallery and requested that my account be closed and removed. There's no button for opting out. Jostein Den 15.08.2018 16:04, skrev Daniel J. Matyola: Same here. Last week, I check the PPG site, and the Upload page was still broken. When I

Re: more PPG woes?

2018-08-16 Thread Dale H. Cook
At 03:44 PM 8/16/2018, Mark Roberts wrote: >The net effect is to penalize small, independent web sites compared to big, >corporate sites. (Which is probably one of the goals, anyway.) Fortunately I do not depend upon search engines for traffic. My domains are highly specialized and most of the

Re: more PPG woes?

2018-08-16 Thread Mark Roberts
Dale H. Cook wrote: >At 10:48 AM 8/16/2018, Mark Roberts wrote: > >>That just means they're using the standard http protocol instead of https >>(encrypted). I wouldn't worry too much about it unless you're giving the site >>private personal information or credit card numbers. > >This is a phenom

Re: more PPG woes?

2018-08-16 Thread Dale H. Cook
At 10:48 AM 8/16/2018, Mark Roberts wrote: >That just means they're using the standard http protocol instead of https >(encrypted). I wouldn't worry too much about it unless you're giving the site >private personal information or credit card numbers. This is a phenomenon that has become common.

Re: more PPG woes?

2018-08-16 Thread John
In Firefox there should be a pop-down banner accompanying the message that allows you to tell Firefox you accept the risk and to go ahead & load the page. On 8/16/2018 10:32, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: This is the message I get on both Google Chrome and Firefox: Your connection is not secure Th

Re: more PPG woes?

2018-08-16 Thread Matthew Hunt
They're using https but their certificate expired two days ago, hence the error message: pentaxphotogallery.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate expired on Tuesday, August 14, 2018, 11:43:18 AM. The current time is August 16, 2018, 11:17 AM. Error code: SEC_ERROR_EXPIRED_CERT

Re: more PPG woes?

2018-08-16 Thread Mark Roberts
Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >This is the message I get on both Google Chrome and Firefox: > >Your connection is not secure > >The owner of pentaxphotogallery.com has configured their website >improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not >connected to this website. That

Re: more PPG woes?

2018-08-16 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
This is the message I get on both Google Chrome and Firefox: Your connection is not secure The owner of pentaxphotogallery.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogall

Re: more PPG woes?

2018-08-15 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Same here. Last week, I check the PPG site, and the Upload page was still broken. When I tried to send them a message through the contact page. the "captcha" could not be satisfied, and would not permit the message to be sent to Ricoh. Late last night, I tried again, and received a message like