er...@usbeckers.com spake unto us the following wisdom:
Aside from the user agreement accepted at the installation of Pidgin, is
there an overall EULA I should consider before using this product for 500
users at my company?
You should read the user agreement which you accepted at the
Narcis Garcia - GiLUG spake unto us the following wisdom:
Something is wrong in this list' setup, because is needed to use the
Answer to all function to reply to Pidgin's mail list.
On the contrary, something is wrong with lists which automatically
redirect replies to the list. Search the
us_dellplus_export_complia...@dell.com spake unto us the following wisdom:
My name is Arturo Moreno and I am with the Export Compliance team at
Dell Inc. We are providing custom factory integration to one of our
customers and as part of their image they have your software Pidgin.
We need to
Steven Foreman spake unto us the following wisdom:
I want to have a spell checker on pidgin and a instant conversation
loging, cause every time i close my convo window i lose my convo, how do
i get those
For the spell checker, you should have it by default on most Unix
systems, and it's an
joanna.bu...@oracle.com spake unto us the following wisdom:
This is the worst user documentation I have ever used.
Such helpful commentary!
There is no conceptual oververview, it does not explain the user
interface nor the work flow and it simply assumes the user already knows
the basics
Josh Black spake unto us the following wisdom:
i am pretty new to ubuntu, i am trying to use facebook chat with pidgin by
using xmpp protocol, i entered all the information correctly as instructed
on facebook. it is still giving me the invalid xmpp id message/
This almost certainly means that
David Balazic spake unto us the following wisdom:
For next time I suggest the latest revolutionary technique,
called testing ;)
This comment is not helpful. Clearly we would like to test
everything, but in some cases it is not possible. Most Pidgin
developers do not have access to Windows, or
Mary Aston spake unto us the following wisdom:
please stop sending emails to me thankyou
You voluntarily subscribed to a public mailing list support@pidgin.im,
and therefore are receiving emails from it. There is a footer at the
bottom of every message from the list explaining how to
(Snipping translators because this thread is irrelevant there.)
David Balazic spake unto us the following wisdom:
Well, then you could have sent an email, before doing the release:
Hi!
At http://some.server/pidgin-2.7.0-rc.exe you can get the release
candidate
for Pidgin 2.7.0-win32. If
Patrick Martin spake unto us the following wisdom:
Can someone explain how the startup command switch of:
--display=DISPLAY X display to use
...works... I was in hurry yesterday and rather critically spazzed out
on Pidgin. I mistakenly clicked to take it full screen.
This doesn't
Lauritz Vesteraas Thaulow spake unto us the following wisdom:
There's a little group of people on the Ubuntu forums wondering why
pidgin regularly uploads a sizeable amount of data to the msn servers,
even when not chatting with anyone.
One of the more MSN-savvy devs will have to comment on
Charlotte Whitescarver spake unto us the following wisdom:
I am Dootersmom and I have a slight problem. There is a person
whose username is Mpsiebel that I do not know who keeps sending me
spam messages about the cheap insurance he/she has purchased, etc..
This person has also interrupted
Evan Platt spake unto us the following wisdom:
With no details provided other than Cannot access pidgin, how is
anyone supposed to Do the needful?
What precisely are you doing, and what precisely is happening?
He's at Oracle, and he thinks we're Oracle support. I'm calling them
on the
Joelle Crepsac spake unto us the following wisdom:
I've suggested that 150 people (that do not have administrative
privileges) use this application; an application that has had something
close to 8 version changes in a few months.
If you're deploying Pidgin to a large group, you should
melissa k spake unto us the following wisdom:
Today, when I logged into Pidgin, I started to get DOZENS of Cannot add
buddy 1 for unknown reasons error pop-ups - one every other second or so.
I'm pretty sure it's from AIM, as I disabled that account and the
notifications vanished.
I
David Balažic spake unto us the following wisdom:
I have problems with the login at https://developer.pidgin.im/login
Where to turn for assistance?
The first thing you should do is, of course, tell us what those
problems *are*. Assuming it simply isn't taking your password, and
that password
Chuck Braden spake unto us the following wisdom:
There is no guaranteed response time.
Very well, but some response would seem to be expected. That never
took place - not even the URL below prior to this.
Not that it's worth arguing about, but ... we feel the same way about
bug reports. If a
Kris Armstrong spake unto us the following wisdom:
I can't connect to MSN or Facebook.
Both of these failures are for invalid login password. 99.95% of
the time, that means you typed your username or password incorrectly.
Double-check them and try again. You may wish to delete the accounts
Siddharth Chandra spake unto us the following wisdom:
Since Libpurple is a thread unsafe library, I wanted to know, how I can send
UI requests like send IM and status update etc. without creating a new
thread. I have gone through pidgin and finch code and have noticed that they
register gtk
Judy MacKenzie spake unto us the following wisdom:
I have just installed Pidgin on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. Yahoo account. Am
chatting but if send more than about 100 letters, get error message sent
insteadUnable to send message: The message is too large. An example
is this: Teacher said is a
Vangelis Katsikaros spake unto us the following wisdom:
I have Pidgin 2.6.2 (libpurple 2.6.2) on ubuntu 9.10. My ISP gave me a
new ADSL modem-router [1] and since I have the following.
1) I have the XMPP (jabber) account disabled.
2) I enable it and I get the following debug info [2].
3)
$@|]#@||@ spake unto us the following wisdom:
Inorder to login as gmail.it is asking resource wat should be filled
there
You may safely leave it blank.
Ethan
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Marcio Humpris spake unto us the following wisdom:
such as
Hi, I have a correction for portuguese translation, can someone please send
me PT-BR translator's email address?
Maybe it come in a next batch of answers?
You first question came through 14 minutes ago. The headers indicate
that
rh...@hushmail.com spake unto us the following wisdom:
when attempting to install this pluginerror message pidgin
cannot be found. I use Pidgin daily so i know the pidgin
installation is there..
any hep would be appreciated.
We did not write and do not support OTR. You need to contact
rh...@hushmail.com spake unto us the following wisdom:
many thanks for your response, should this plugin not be used?
rgds
You can use the plugin, that's fine; many people use it. We (the
Pidgin developers) simply did not write it, and therefore cannot
provide support for it.
Ethan
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isa K. spake unto us the following wisdom:
Kurdish is not language of Türkiye (Turkey) ! Please be carrefuly of
this. Our official language is Turkçe ..
We provide both a Turkish and Kurdish translation. We are completely
uninterested in language politics, and provide translations which are
David Fletcher spake unto us the following wisdom:
I keep getting this Unable to authenticate: Authentication Failure
everytime I log into pidgin, how to I en-able so I can use my MSN?
First off, I'd like to point out that your email is 126kB, and
contains approximately .5kB of useful
isa K. spake unto us the following wisdom:
I understand you very clearly and Thank you for your interest. if you
give to me english language file, I would like to translate it on
turkish language.
You should contact the Turkish translators (from the Help |
Translator Information menu item)
Hans Peter spake unto us the following wisdom:
How can I get GnuTLS on Windows without compiling
pidgin myself? What's it all about GnuTLS by the way. Heard about it the
first
time reading the build information. It says 'GnuTLS:Disabled', and I don't
like
disabled ... If this is more
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino spake unto us the following wisdom:
On 26 July 2010 15:17, Ethan Blanton eblan...@cs.ohiou.edu wrote:
I think maybe you're confused about exactly what happened. The
translated .po file for Pidgin itself *was* included in the install.
It is selectable from
Виктор Лапин spake unto us the following wisdom:
Users are confused because even as they check localization they
need, Pidgin still starts in English and shows no sign of switching
language.
If this is truly the case, then I did not understand this, and that is
indeed a problem.
Ethan
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Marcio Humpris spake unto us the following wisdom:
Plugin XMPP gateways - Doesn't work for us, has anyone been able to make it
work? Pidgin could have support for gateways natively...
Pidgin will happily use gateways which are already configured, but
provides no support for configuring
Roxann Roberson-Nay spake unto us the following wisdom:
Can my question/post be removed (here is the link
http://www.mail-archive.com/support@pidgin.im/msg08089.html).
I do not like my full name and email being openly available to the public.
It cannot. Even if we remove it from our own
David Woolley spake unto us the following wisdom:
fetion 0.97 is the plugin. I guess this means it is a third party
plugin and not supported here. For 0.97, there seems to be no
documentation or copyright statement in the source tree, so I can't
work out where the official support channel
File Crest spake unto us the following wisdom:
This is Sam from FileCrest.com. Our site has combined the best, most
popular, free, open source, demo and trial software and drivers in a simple
to navigate website. FileCrest provides new updates as well as old versions
of the software and
B Linky spake unto us the following wisdom:
The certificate for omega.msn.com could not be validated, The
certificate chain presented is invalid.
.. trying to connect to MSN today, see the following page for the solution:
Terry Haggis spake unto us the following wisdom:
Is there an easy way of fixing this? Apologies for coming direct to
you guys but I am really busy at the moment and don't have time to
investigate why this is happening.
We are really busy with all of the people asking this question without
(Pulled back to support@ as an instructive example.)
Terry Haggis spake unto us the following wisdom:
Is this for real? Is this supposed to be Support??
A little bit rude if you ask me.
So is asking a question which has been answered numerous times, and
without even looking to see if there's
Newschannel10 Weather spake unto us the following wisdom:
Hi there, my name is Allan Gwyn with KFDA-TV in Amarillo TX and I have
been a user on Pidgin until a few months ago. I had an email change a
few months back and as a result I missed a password update reminder
from you guys for the
David Woolley spake unto us the following wisdom:
Also please submit a bug report on your email program. It has
placed a ,, outside of quotation marks, in the human readable part
of the name, in the From: header. Although this is slightly
obscured by the coding scheme used for representing
David Woolley spake unto us the following wisdom:
Fábio Rodrigues wrote:
Hello, Pidgin is not adding Hotmail users. Is there an update to
fix this error?
Depends on what version of Pidgin you are running! There is no
known problem on 2.7.9.
Actually, it's been reported a number of times
Michael Wolf spake unto us the following wisdom:
Well despite a rude Richard Laager (look dude, I'm sorry I didn't
see your request to send to the list. I've suffered brain damage,
and the request was stuffed in under the headers because you didn't
clean up your reply, so no, I didn't see it,
Ethan Blanton spake unto us the following wisdom:
Michael Wolf spake unto us the following wisdom:
Well despite a rude Richard Laager (look dude, I'm sorry I didn't
see your request to send to the list. I've suffered brain damage,
and the request was stuffed in under the headers because
Jose Matarazzo spake unto us the following wisdom:
Hi, I noticed that when I reply a message in the list it replies to
the sender and not to support@pidgin.im, can this be change coz it's
very unconfortable.
This has been discussed many times. Lists which set Reply-To: to the
list are broken.
Mestl, Robert R spake unto us the following wisdom:
Is it possible when installing a new version of Pidgin, to not remove
the previously installed plug-ins, and have to re-install them?
Kind of annoying each time a new version of Pidgin comes out...
You're going to have to provide a lot more
Templeton Peck spake unto us the following wisdom:
I know, this is not (really) the right place to ask for it. But on the
other hand I cannot think of another to get help from. Recently I
recommended the Nokia n900 to a friend, so he can communicate with me.
Yesterday I got a little bit
Templeton Peck spake unto us the following wisdom:
No, before this time, I was sending it two times and it did not show up in
the list at all. Sorry, but no my fault if your mailsystem doesn't work
properly.
Check the list archives. It went twice on 2/27, once on 3/1, and once
today -- each
David Woolley spake unto us the following wisdom:
Ethan Blanton wrote:
Check the list archives. It went twice on 2/27, once on 3/1, and once
today -- each time slightly different.
Only the last one reached me.
Check your spam filters.
Ethan
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Templeton Peck spake unto us the following wisdom:
And you - Mr. Blanton - have obviously a problem with being nice to people.
In my opinion you are a choleric.
I am sorry that you feel the need to publically attack me.
I sent you one email, which politely stated, in case you were unaware,
Burns, Jennifer spake unto us the following wisdom:
I am currently using Pidgin through Olark for chatting. I recently
became aware that my logged transcripts are saved on my hard drive in
the .purple folder. How can I redirect the log to be saved in a more
secure location on our staff
Metalbazar.com spake unto us the following wisdom:
We cannot send this file to your location. Please visit our our T7
pagehttp://sourceforge.net/t7.php
Really I never understand why you are thinking as dictators in closing the
communication relations by skit works. in fact you are thinking
Richard Allen spake unto us the following wisdom:
I'm using pidgin 2.7.10 and for some reason I cant find the Tools
menu anywhere, and as a result the Privacy menu is also nowhere to
be found. Is this a recent change and if so, how to unblock
people?
Thanks in advance.
PS: ive attached
Richard Allen spake unto us the following wisdom:
Thanks for responding Ethan
I am a bit confused as this is the only menu I can find in Pidgin.
I've attached a screenshot of the buddy list for you to view.
I have no idea what is going on there. Something is clearly broken.
This may be some
Kwagga Productions spake unto us the following wisdom:
Hallo guys. I am a blind person. I have to use pidgin to talk to my
mxit buddies. My screen reader don't want to read pidgin's
conversation window. I know that there arn't any screen readers that
support pidgin so i have to make do
allstar gamer spake unto us the following wisdom:
I'm wanting to create a shortcut or run a command line prompt that will open
a conversation with one of my contacts.
I.e. desktop icon when clicked opens a chat with Mxit #contact Name#.
is there any way this can be done with pidgin?
It's not
Silvia spake unto us the following wisdom:
Hi, several months ago I wrote to you about a problem with my pidgin account
(using another email account with my full name). I discovered that my email
has been publicly spread out and now my name, surname and email address
appear in several lines
Tamara Graham spake unto us the following wisdom:
I just finished downloading Pidgin for Mac. When the download completed, a
window popped up with the message of 'unarchiving pidgin...'. After that,
I'm unable to find the application to open. I'm not at all literate with
Pidgin or similar
Kevin Mc Kenna spake unto us the following wisdom:
I have downloaded Pidgin for OS X from the web site and unpacked it.it
seems to place many files on the hard drive, but does not start or give me
any icons to start it, or even a file indication of how to start it.please
give me guidance.
Daniel Howard spake unto us the following wisdom:
Q: Is there a switch somewhere to turn off Pidgin's awareness /
handling of networkmanager events? Is it possible to build a
non-networkmanager-aware client? (Or just make IRC ignore
networkmanager?) How hard would it be for a Unix Admin
Lisa Johnson spake unto us the following wisdom:
How do I turn off this automated message to my users?
was marked I'm not here right now on Fri Apr 29 07:52:38 2011.
Go to Tools | Preferences, hit the Status/Idle tab, turn off status
changes on idle. Assuming I understood your question.
Mitch Claborn spake unto us the following wisdom:
bump
Don't bump mailing lists, that's quite rude.
If anyone knows an answer to your question, they will respond. If no
one responds, it's likely because there isn't an easy answer, which
means you're going to have to get plugin-writing.
Ethan
kenny_her...@cargill.com spake unto us the following wisdom:
Just wondering if your development team had ever entertained the
thought of submitting your source code for a static code analysis by
Fortify. It is free of charge and can be a source validation for any
disputes on potential
Barry Gould spake unto us the following wisdom:
The version of pidgin being used is 2.5.2
Upgrade.
Ethan
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Barry Gould spake unto us the following wisdom:
Thanks for reply. My pidgin program is part of quickweb operating
system which prevents downloads to the hard disk making it more
secure. So i dont think it is possible to upgrade as you suggest. I do
not wish to download pidgin to windows os, as
David Woolley spake unto us the following wisdom:
Pidgin is basically a client, and needs a server. Most people
running private IM services use XMPP based servers. You will either
have to nominate one of the user PCs to run the server, or you will
need a dedicated machine. I can't imagine
Dan Solari spake unto us the following wisdom:
--- On Mon, 6/6/11, Daniel Solari dsol...@sbli.com wrote:
Chill. It's been just a few hours since you sent your last message.
Everyone on this mailing list is a volunteer, when someone who knows
the answer to your question (I don't) sees it, they
Michael R. McCarrey spake unto us the following wisdom:
Would I be correct to assume that the glib dependencies for Pidgin have been
deliberately changed, (as opposed to someone accidentally building it on a
brand new machine with the latest Ubummer release installed), to GLib 2.16.0
or
Mark Doliner spake unto us the following wisdom:
(In my case, Fedora 8) being nagged to death to upgrade, is there any
chance of a 2.7.11a version that will permit disabling the new version
check or;
Nope! Sorry for the inconvenience. Our general feeling is that, if
the packager no
Christy Ankrom spake unto us the following wisdom:
I cannot connect to XMPP on version 2.8.0 - giving me error SSL handshake
failed. Searched support and cannot find documentation to help me out.
Last tried and worked on 6/10/11.
Please include the contents of a debug log (Help | Debug
Paul Trueman spake unto us the following wisdom:
Hi, I would like to be unsubscribed from any mailing list I subscribed to.
There are instructions at the bottom of every email you receive from
this list:
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Daniel Curry spake unto us the following wisdom:
I don't know if one aware that Norton (symatic) antivirus deletes
pidgin.exe 2.9 binary file. 2.8 and below was no problem.
You need to report this to Norton, their antivirus is broken and wrong.
Ethan
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nightwing.pid...@mailnull.com spake unto us the following wisdom:
I'm using the latest version of Pidgin, with Swedish translation on
Windows 7 SP1 and I only got one problem:
I cannot /ban people on IRC. It simply returns me a message about that
the command doesn't work under that protocol
Michail Bogdanov spake unto us the following wisdom:
Hi!
Hi Michail,
I'm willing to translate page located at http://pidgin.im/about/ to
the Belorussian language (my mother tongue). What I'm asking for is
your written permission, so you don't mind after I'll post the
translation to my blog.
David Balažic spake unto us the following wisdom:
I'll just add that:
- having two language choices is confusing and unnecessary (one for
installer and one for the app itself)
I believe this is due to Windows' general brokenness. Windows is
sufficiently broken that many people do not use a
Eben Bainbridge spake unto us the following wisdom:
It seems to me that Pidgin does not like to accept MSN addresses
ending .uk which is incredibly irritating considering that I live in
the UK. Can this be fixed please? It's also very annoying to have to
have subscribed to a mailing list just
Sergey Kuniavsky spake unto us the following wisdom:
Hello.
I have shifted to use pidgin as my IM client, after using some other tools.
In one of the thingsd I have used before (specifically digsby) there
is a feature to merge contacts. For example, if it is the same
person on ICQ, MSN,
Volker Kussatz spake unto us the following wisdom:
is possible for Google + an access of pidgin? like facebook chat.
Not exactly. Google+ chat is somehow related to (but I don't think
exactly the same as?) Google Talk chat, which we support natively.
Not all of my Google+ circled friends show
Dave Melanson spake unto us the following wisdom:
I've created and an IPSEC VPN Tunnel for our office. When I enable the VPN
Tunnel, Pidgin is disconnected from our IRC server and is the only
application that stops working.
As soon as I disable the VPN Tunnel, Pidgin is able to connect to
Mariette Steenkamp spake unto us the following wisdom:
Greetings,
Can you possibly assist this user.
This user mailed our support list, and someone replied. Pidgin does
not send emails. We have no idea what might be going on here, but
it's not us.
Ethan
J. Bakshi spake unto us the following wisdom:
Like skype, can we get a pop-up notification in pidgin when someone
join/leave ?
Look into the Guifications plugin:
http://www.guifications.org/
Ethan
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David Oliver spake unto us the following wisdom:
My first gtalk/gmail account would not enable. I connected ANOTHER account
and that one was able to connect. I have made no changes to either Pidgin or
Gmail (that I know of) I have search for solutions online and none have
worked. . . .
You
Samuel Huewe spake unto us the following wisdom:
I was wondering how I could display the most recent chat messages at
the top of the window. It has become a issue that when I am having
chats going with multiple people and having to scroll down in each
window to find the most recent is not
Please keep support@ in your Cc when replying, in case some other
users or developers have more information than I do.
Samuel Huewe spake unto us the following wisdom:
I only have message timestamp formats and conversation colors for
plugins. I am on version 2.7.5 running on Windows XP Pro SP3
Hongmei Yang spake unto us the following wisdom:
I Can’t use the Pidgin if though I had create my account.
You need to contact Oracle technical support.
Ethan
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Alexander Ustinov spake unto us the following wisdom:
I am using Pidgin 2.10.0 under Debian Wheezy. Now Pidgin could not
connect to both gmail.com and jabber.ru XMPP servers. Debug
information is similar and both cases, find it attached below.
Program used to connect fine, but after regular
Alexander Ustinov spake unto us the following wisdom:
The server is offering SASL PLAIN, which we should support. Make sure
that the libsasl2-modules package is installed.
It is installed... Possibly distribution-related issue?
I'm not sure ... do you have a libplain.so.* file in
Thomas Mcgovern spake unto us the following wisdom:
Can you assist me in correcting my Pidgin and/or tell me what error(s)
I'm making?
I can't tell from your email, but I'm assuming that this is all with
regards to the Oracle internal IM service? If so, you need to contact
Oracle technical
Matthew McCarter spake unto us the following wisdom:
When using pidgin and OTR activated, when I initially begin chat, the
program is causing the other client to crash. After the crash, we can
chat just fine, with no interference. Have latest build installed. Any
advice or help greatly
Matthew McCarter spake unto us the following wisdom:
Sorry, we are both using Pidgin, latest version. If it matters, he's
on some ver of Linux, and I'm on Win 7. Seems to only crash, when
initially creating a link between us, after crash works fine. I also
switch pcs during the day, work, then
Lewis, Darrin spake unto us the following wisdom:
At my office we use Pidgin for AIM and my boss has hit something on
her Pidgin and every time she has an IM window open with one of her
buddies it shows their current status. For an example her IM window
shows:
BuddieA is now idle
BuddieA
Dick Day spake unto us the following wisdom:
We are a small county government and use OpenFire with Pidgin clients.
We need a way to sent a very short broadcast at a specific time of the
day reminding user to exit a specific application.
Is this doable with Pidgin?
You should be able to
Steve Champagne spake unto us the following wisdom:
Thanks for pointing out this other way of /join'ing a channel. It
would still be nice to understand why a window that used to appear at
finch startup no longer does. Without that window, nothing obvious
jumps out at me indicating the
Boris Benko spake unto us the following wisdom:
I've just spent few minutes by writing quite long message and when I
sent it the client wrote error like: the message is too long. I'm
quite upset but I like this IM. It would be great if you fix this.
For example stop puting chars in the writing
David Schepps spake unto us the following wisdom:
I am trying to stop the automatic text messaging to my cell phone
Pidgin doesn't send any text messages to any phones. This is
something you're going to have to take up with your IM service
provider.
Ethan
Michael Secord spake unto us the following wisdom:
Pidgin on OSX isn't officially supported by the Pidgin project.
This is not really true. Pidgin on OS X is as supported as any other
reasonable platform.
On 1/12/12 1:12 PM, Navid Chalangaran wrote:
hi.
i can't install pidgin in mac os x, i
Kenneth Petit spake unto us the following wisdom:
Can you tell me what error Regristration Failure 409 Conflict means.
Getting this when trying to add an account. This account had been
created a long time ago and I am trying to set it up again due to my
PC crashed and and had to be reimaged so
Amethyst Moon spake unto us the following wisdom:
Can I please have my email address removed for here?
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.pidgin.user/5998
No. Gmane is a public service run by a company with which we have no
affiliation. We cannot do anything about their mailing list
Anton Baranoff spake unto us the following wisdom:
I've got som strange issue with Pidgin on Ubuntu.
While talking with buddy when I trying to close message window it becomes
grey without any controls.. and after that (if my buddy is late to send me
the message) Pidgin force close. This is
Samuel Huewe spake unto us the following wisdom:
My co-workers have the same groups as I do and they are not having any
issues. . .
Protocol is XMPP
I see that your mail is coming through Oracle Beehive. You need to
talk to Oracle IT, this is probably an Oracle internal problem.
Looks
Lesley Barrett spake unto us the following wisdom:
I try to login and I get an error which says
waterpoloc...@olark.com disconnected
Policy Violation
It has a red circular stop sign.
I have the latest version and am sure of my username etc
You need to take this up with olark.
Ethan
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