Ok, I've solved part of the problem. I switched from Netscrape Nagitator to Internet Exploder and "Logged In" all over again. I had tried logging in again on Netscrape to no avail so in desperation, I went to IE.
FreeRepublic "self-search," or "My Comments" or "Posts to you" is totally locked up on my Netscape Browser. I'm not getting any "pings" what-so-ever!!! The "Undue Influence" web-site reply still starts in it's middle under "self-search" then shows a few "pings" from Ernest_at_the_Beach, then presents the beginning of the "Undue Influence" web-site.
Now I remember sometime back when J.R. was gettin upset about reposting other commercial web-sites to F.R. and he may have put some kind of filter on F.R. to prevent it. Could that be the problem?
That might be. But I posted a portion of GOPUSA.com early this morning on this thread and got no complaints, but it was just a graphic of a poll, not something one would reply to in the same manner as lengthy text.
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo cus/news/702476/posts?page=13# 13
(In checking the link above, I did notice that the post that follows mine was from a freeper that went to my GOPUSA.com link to freep the poll, and was told he already had voted. Now that was a bit of weirdness.)
But, again, I wouldn't know about any problems, as I did not HAVE any problems, other than the formatting mess-up on the UndueInfluence post. Just polite complaints from 5 freepers that couldn't do a self search or other FR functions any more.
But now I can ask the others if they used NETSCAPE or IE5.x.
TO: Admin Moderator - Since this problem started as soon as the freepathon ended and the thread for the new keyword feature went up, could you troubleshoot from your end? If there is some new filtering software that affects the features of Netscape or InternetExplorer 5x, (primarily the "View Partial Source" feature) could we get some info on it? thanks