# "You Are Not Logged In....."

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-not-logged-in/86927>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [October 11, 2001, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-not-logged-in/86927 "2001-10-11T23:50:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-not-logged-in/86927/1 "2001-10-11T23:50:34Z")

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Just got this from MPSIMS when I tried to reply to a post, even though I have been logged in all day and had been answering posts right up until I got that message. So when I _did_ try to log in the board kept refusing my name and password.

Came here and clicked on “reply”, and damn if it didn’t open right up.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

Quasi

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**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-not-logged-in/86927/2 "2001-10-12T01:30:30Z")

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You’re banned from MPSIMS, didn’t we tell you?

😉

OK, just a WAG. It sounds like a cookie problem. Is your browser set to automatically delete cookies after a period of inactivity?

(I don’t even know if such a function EXISTS, so bear with me)

Anyone else have an opinion?

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**Author:** ![Miss\_Creant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Miss\_Creant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Creant)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-not-logged-in/86927/3 "2001-10-12T01:36:29Z")

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actually, now that you mention it…

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**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-not-logged-in/86927/4 "2001-10-12T02:07:40Z")

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I get that same message if I try to go to a deleted thread.

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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-not-logged-in/86927/5 "2001-10-12T04:05:11Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Coldfire \*  
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> Is your browser set to automatically delete cookies after a period of inactivity?  
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No, I manually do that weekly, and the thread I was trying to post do had not been deleted.

Q

_whew_ Got past the dreaded 666 with this post! 😉