and change the colour 'cos the eyes ain't wot they used to be

For those with failing eyesight here is the News.

Welcome to The Forum
>>some e-mail providers seem to be rejecting e-mail from this forum if this happens we will delete the account and you should register again using a different e-mail address<<

those who are trade users (not diy) should contact plugwash, Dewy or supersparky through the boards private message feature for access to the trade forums

Quite right too Andrew, one can wreak havoc using JavaScript.

Agree about the colour and timing of banner though as TT says maybe a marquee is a good idea.

Admin the 'problem' is aroud this area -

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var delay = 3500
var bcolor = "#F8F8F8"
var tcolor = "#D4AD00"
var fcontent = new Array()
begintag = '<font size="2"><B>'
fcontent[0] = "<font color=#0884BB>Welcome to The Forum</font>"
fcontent[1] = ""
fcontent[2] = "<font color=#0888BB>>>some e-mail providers seem to be rejecting e-mail from this forum if this happens we will delete the account and you should register again using a different e-mail address<<</font>"
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Wabbit Wabbit

Cool!

Now why is there such a long delay between messages?

Ha, there's no pleasing some people

[quote author=squiggle  link=1083016521/0#10 date=1083108817]Drifing further and thinking email, what do so many people insist on sending messages as HTML when plain text is perfectly adequate? If (rare at the moment but I'm planning on a new box) I'm on my Linux box and using KMail, sometimes I find I can't even read the stuff without a lot of effort. [/quote]

Virus parasites often use HTML because they can verify email addresses with it. They put image markups in the HTML so that when you open the email the image is requested via the Internet, and the request is logged back at base. Leastways that's what someone told me.

I agree about simple text, but there's no catering for the smartarse brigade who think that they have to write their email in pretty prose.

My email client (The Bat! - see http://www.ritlabs.com) automatically switches HTML into simple text. And also replaces any images requested in HTML with placeholders. No scripting language in The Bat for virus writers to get excited about.

Andrew