On 2023-03-08, bo1953 wrote:
> Hello all... Having challenges connecting to aioe, is this no longer
> available to SM users?
AIOE has been down following hardware failure. For some alternatives to
access USENET groups, check:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Njsg/News_providers
There are certainly more, and I should try to extend that table with
more examples; I just changed it right now because it still listed AIOE.
> Yet My main challenge regardless, trying to connect to
cruisecritic.com and
> cannot on this machine a lenovo t61 laptop, Win 10 pro and SM 2.53.15 I can
> connect on other machines.
>
> This connectivity challenge started this afternoon and I had not updated My
> machine and have tried connecting in safe mode without success.
This is probably not going to be much helpful this long after your
original message, but:
Something that states "challenge" before showing the site is most likely
a test purportedly to weed out bots and scripts, but which often shows
lack of ability (of those who implemented it) to test beyond two or
three web browsers and versions.
A repeat offender is Cloudflare, which sometimes not only makes
SeaMonkey go through the challenge, but also manages to require features
or behaviours that aren't present in most browsers.
This depends on the service that provides such "challenges", but also on
the settings the site owner chooses in that service. And quite often
it's not a change on your side that makes the challenge appear, but one
on *their* side.
(It's already bad that I have to enable JavaScript on these sites to
pass such challenges. It gets worse when the challenges are coded in a
way that makes them impossible to pass. What is this, a "freemium"
game?)
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Nuno Silva