Anyone Having Trouble Viewing the FISM 2009 website?

[Richard Kaufman]

I can't seem to get their website to open at www.FISM2009.org using either IE or Firefox.

Anyone else have this problem?

[Joe Pecore]

It worked for me, but it took awhile.

[Richard Kaufman]

My browsers both time out.

[Richard Perrin]

Got an error from my pager. Will check my computer when I get home from work. Will keep you in post.

[CraigMitchell]

It works

[Joe Pecore]

I'm using Firefox and it still works.
The page is very busy, with a couple of boxes jumping around. yuck!

Try going to one of the other pages besides home:
https://www.fism2009.org/Welcome_en.asp


I am having trouble with some of the links. You click on them and they don't work.

- Joe

[Richard Kaufman]

Nope--can't get it to open with IE, Firefox, and I even tried Netscape. All time out.

[Magic Randy]

I can open it with both IE and FF.

There is a re-direct. Try the following link.

https://www.fism2009.org/index.asp

[Tim Ellis]

Works fine for me with IE

[Terry]

Nope--can't get it to open with IE, Firefox, and I even tried Netscape. All time out.

Don't be paranoid. . .they are out to get you. . .

[Richard Evans]

The two boxes bouncing around the homepage may be the issue: maybe you need an Adobe Flash update??

[Joe Pecore]

They do not seem to be using Adobe Flash for those annoying boxes.

It' still working for me. I can't think of why it would not be working for Richard, other then the conspiracy theory.

[Frank Dudgeon]

Works for me on Mozilla Firefox. By the way, one of the annoying boxes is out of date. Time for a new annoying box!

[Terry]

Richard,

Do you have a pop-up blocker that may be causing you an issue?

You may also want to check your security settings on your browsers as they have a nasty way of screwing up your access to sites.

[Richard Kaufman]

I always have a pop-up blocker on, but it's never caused a problem with the FISM 2009 website before. But with those little boxes now floating all over the place, that might be it.

[Steve Hook]

There were some random Internet backbone routing issues about the same time this week that this started for you folks who had trouble.

The symptoms were slow or timed-out site accesses.

It could have been that...or that combined with some individual PC issues.

[CraigMitchell]

FISM is clearly expanding its market share into the world of porn ...

https://www.fism2009.org/forum/forum_po ... D=523&PN=1

Would be helpful if the site admins prevented xxx spam all over their 'official' message boards ;-)

[naquada]

I alerted the main FISM body last time, no idea if it was ever cleared up..

but for such a high profile event, its a shame they dont seem to update or even maintain the forum and site often... some of the original spam on the form was weeks old... :(

those flying boxes are somewhat annoying!!

[Tim Ellis]

I have the same problem on the Australian Institute of Magic Forum. I'm in there twice a day deleting spam.

How do you do it Richard? Any tips?

[CraigMitchell]

Compulsory Registration and a non-standard Captcha should get rid of most board spam ...

The majority of these spam attacks come from particular IP ranges which you can also block.

[Richard Kaufman]

Craig is correct: we have compulsory registration and a Captcha program in place (where you have to type in those odd-looking randomly generated words).