Why Can't I Get to This Thread?

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When I post something on SDMB or respond to a post, I save the email notification as a WordPad document (hey, it works for me). I haven’t looked thru the folder where I keep these WordPad, but when I did just now I noticed a thread I didn’t recall responding to. So just for the heck of it, I copied and pasted the address given in my copy of the email, and tried to get there on the internet. Then something weird happened. I got a message saying I don’t have permission to go to that web address. I suspect it has something to do with how my email account links separately to the internet. So this is partly a test to confirm my suspicions. (Realize though that I am no longer interested in the actual web address–just why I can’t get there.)

Here is the web address as given in my email:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=129023&goto=newpost <http://207.68.164.250:80/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=9649a010644b5191493957f96ac405a0&lat=1028454216&hm___action=http%3A%2F%2Fboards.straightdope.com%2Fsdmb%2Fshowthread.php%3Fthreadid%3D129023%26goto%3Dnewpost>

Pretty long, I know. Here is just part of it:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=129023&goto=newpost

I have noticed too that I don’t have this problem as much when I save it only as a Text document.

Well, if I have shocked anyone with lack of knowledge of computers or the internet, just realize that I am learning from my mistakes as I go along;).

:slight_smile:

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That post was move to the Invisible Forum. No, really. There’s a hidden forum that only moderators and administrators have access to, where they move threads they deem inappropriate, rather than deleting them outright.

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It looks like a thread that was removed from public access for being against board rules. Do you remember what it was about?

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I feel strangely relieved for some reason. Perhaps it’s because the fault wasn’t mine or the computer’s. Or perhaps it’s because I wasn’t imagining things, the thread DID exist <Twilight Zone Music> Just kidding:).

Seriously though, the name of the post was* ‘Does someone speak whatever this is?’ *. I don’t know when the thread began, but I responded to it Sun, 4 Aug 2002.

I suspect the Moderators may have gotten angry when someone posted something in some foreign language they didn’t understand. It is against SDMB rules because you could be posting something obscene, inflamatory, etc. and they’d have no way to know.

<kissing-up-to-the-moderators>BTW, you will notice I rarely break any of the forum rules. And if I do, it is entirely by mistake, and I make sure it never happens again once a moderator brings it to my attention:)</kissing-up-to-the-moderators>

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Oops, that should read “rarely or never”. But you get the picture;).

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It wasn’t de-magnetized because of the foreign language content, but because someone thoughtfully provided a link to a site that deals with, ah, substances that are less that fully legal.

And it was vanished around August, so you are a bit behind in your email, Jim B.