What's with all the pop-unders???

[motion]

Or is it just me? I'm using IE 5.0 on a Mac... every thread I click onto I get *another* pop-under. If I spend 30 minutes on the board I end up with 20 pop-unders open in my browser, necessitating a quit of IE and restart. I don't think I've ever been slammed this hard from a site. I feel that one is acceptable, but this is out of control, in my opinion.

[pjv911]

I just get one. That not too bad to deal with. 20 pop ups well ?? Thats enough to send me packing. Have you notified Wayne about this ?

Kurt Williams

[gr8fl4porsche]

strange,

I am using XP, IE 7.0, & DSL and I get zero pop-ups.

At work with 98, IE5.0 or similar, & dial-up, I get 1 pop-up.

[island911]

Here is 3 pages about all this.

FWIW, if you have your cookies disabled, you will get a pop-back with each page.
Apparently, Wayne is part of the cookie enforcement consortium--you must let us control your computer. . .just a little. . . for now.

[nostatic]

There are a few issues beyond just cookies. Running IE 5.2 under OS X (10.2) I only get one popunder per day on the BBS (although I use OmniWeb for most of my browsing).

BUT, each time I access the PM pages, I get a new popunder for each access. Wayne, is this a feature or a bug?

[jester911]

I just recently downloaded a program that kills popups and it is free. It keeps a small icon in the taskbar and you can kill them or not as you choose. If anyone is interested I will give you more info. I have been running it about a week now and it seems to work great.

[Ted Stringer]

Wayne, I know that you are going to hate me for this.

Guys, download Mozilla. It has a option to kill all unrequested popups. Running Mozilla 1.0 on RedHat linux 7.2 (2.4.18), haven't seen a popup in months. There also is a version for windows.

[pwd72s]

If you think it's bad here, you ought to see what's happened to the Early 911S registry site! I'm posting this because I know that the webmaster there visits here. Sherwood, WHY?