Quote - Well, it is a Beta...

Yes, but this happened with my other hotmail account as well. And that is not the Beta version. As a matter of fact, I was locked out of both accounts for a bit yesterday afternoon.

Thanks, modus0, much obliged. Btw, there is Firefox formatting, drag & drop, and other new features I liked in Windows Live Mail. But I can't keep having problems like this (I even get "Report this to Microsoft!" errors quite often when I choose the smileys!) lol

Quote - Odd, I'm not having any problems getting to my hotmail (just checked it and saw an ebot for this thread).

Gmail's nice, although I still use hotmail for most places, especially those that might cause spam. Although if hotmail's your only email and you can't get to it, an invite for gmail won't be of much use.

Are you using Windows Live Mail Beta? At any rate, I don't expect they have only 1 server for the millions of people that use it. Chances are the server through which your mail runs is ok. For now.

I got into hotmail, but I don't trust it. I have email addies through my websites, so it's no problem to get the invitation. :)

ME ME ME!!!! PLEASE, I need it. Hotmail is screwed up the arse right now. I'm so pissed, I have important mail there and I can't access anything now. Can't get in to the bloody site!!!!

I gladly accept!!

Well, now, here we have it. Hotmail is screwed. If you type in hotmail.com and take note of the URL bar, you'll see the addy change, sometimes several times, as it goes through the hotmail servers. This is what popped up this time.

Thanks for all the responses. :) I added ebot at renderosity dot com to my safe list when hotmail started flagging the ebots as potentially dangerous. That started around the time of the gallery changes. Hotmail still let me choose to read it, though.

Then they changed something in the rendo mail system, and until about july 4th I continued to get bots, and hotmail stopped flagging it.

Nothing from here goes into the junk folder, and I did get the mail from admin at renderosity dot com. But now, nothing from the ebot addy shows up at all.

Do any of the admins know if other hotmail people are having this problem? Or what I can do?

Don't worry, Stacey, and thank you so much for responding. :) I IM'd Clint and he told me that nothing had been received. The merchant requested the order number from me on the 10th or 11th, and I sent it to him on the 12th.

I emailed the order number to him again today in case he didn't get it. cough

Since he approved this via email, can I forward those emails to someone if this drags on? I mean, damn, that's the worst way to establish a rapport with customers, to promise something, and then not respond, and then not follow through.

Or maybe his ISP's email "bots" don't work anymore. lololol

Quote - Ok then, thanks. It just seems odd that someone would have 18 pages of favourites and not make a single comment as to why.  But oh well.

LOL, I don't have 18 pages of faves, but I don't leave a comment about those I chose. I felt my ramblings didn't do them justice, better to let people say, "I wonder what this artist is about?" and let them click the link. ;)

wonders what everybody is talking about.

lol

Sorry about your issues, dadt, and hope they get resolved. I never knew that the AOL browser had to continue to run in order to maintain the internet connection. When I first started coming online, I had AOL, (on a Mac). When I started using other browsers, I only had to hit "quit" and the AOL browser seemed to.... well, quit.

I dunno, maybe it was still running in the background.

I do understand that you will use more memory if you have to run 2 browsers simultaneously; but until something changes, that might be the solution for when you visit Rendo. Hope everything works out! :)

Thanks for checking! That is so strange! When others were complaining about not getting ebots, I was still getting them. Go figure, LOL!

At the time, my only problem was that Hotmail was flagging Rendo bots as potentially dangerous, but I was told that was due to a change here -- which was then fixed.

I had several comments on a gallery image, and I missed them all. I'm sure my fave artists have uploaded summat, LOL, but no 'bots.

Just now checked, and 3 more people commented on an image of mine today... and nada. :(

I'm iz sad.

And guess who didn't get an ebot about the responses? lol
Thanks for the info.

Errr.. any word on the ebots then? I guess I'll have to keep checking the thread... as I most likely won't be notified via email. lol

I haven't gotten gallery comment ebots since at least the beginning of this month. I'm pretty sure a couple days ago I got 1 or 2  Favorite Artist upload notices, though... Pleezy weezy fixey! With cherries on the top?

Speaking of gallery options. I know you guys (and gals) have bent over backwards trying to accomodate everyone; it is greatly appreciated, really. I love the new format, the new uploading method... it's so much better. And yes, I have a "thing" about the popups, I do love th;em. lolol.

Only thing I would ADORE being able to change is the ability to not have my own views count toward my images. When people comment, if ya' wanna see what they said, ya' gotta view your own image again. And there goes another count that shouldn't count.

Many galleries (and website visitor stats) are like that, but there are some that use a script that will overlook a repeat visit from the same IP addy. Just throwing that out there.

Quote - I once saw the "Star Trek: Voyager" character "Tuvok" described as an "African American Vulcan". That made me smile.

Quote - ...This whole gender neutrality thing is as daft as labelling people 'African American', 'Asian Briton' etc. ad nauseam...

Speaking of African Americans &  African American Vulcans (LMAO!!) -- being of mixed heritage, you can imagine how much I am treated to the dance of politcal correctness. It's nice that people try to be so... (inoffensive? ) -- but y'know, it  can be annoying.

People look at me, see brown skin, and slap that label right on me. "African American". Errr... thanks for just wiping out my Cherokee & British ancestors.

As for the Vulcan thing -- I think "Black Vulcan" sounds way cooler! C'mon... you know you do, too. :p

Hey... I didn't realize I couldn't browse people's favorites anymore. : ( Maybe because I spent too much time poking around all the new changes.

I can't quite remember how things were before, but in the past, were we not given options to:

1. visit a member's homepage,
2. view their gallery,  AND
3. send an IM

simply by clicking their username anywhere throughout the site? I could have sworn that there were (at least) 3 such links that appeared if you clicked someone's name... Could be mistaken...

AnyHOO, I would like to minimze some hunting around with these possibilities. Maybe I'm just lazy. lol