NOW what?

[cjsmith]

ALL right folks, who stole my "Comment on this" link from the previous post?

I swear, LJ hates me. No one else has the stupid reply links. Now I can't get comments at all. Grrr.

[Edit: Well, at least THIS one has it. No, I did not disable comments on the previous entry! Not intentionally.]

[Much Later Edit: HAHAHAHAHA, Joe told me how to access that entry for editing. Comments are enabled again! The missing link is back! I have TRIUMPHED! With a little help from my friends. :-)]

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

This one was

http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=3Dcjsmith&itemid=3D584=
51

Admittedly, only seventy-two characters before adding the stupid equals sign for line wrapping, but they add five spaces ahead of it and their MIMEification software seems to wrap at seventy-five. And the 3D before cjsmith makes it nonfunctional, of course.

Almost everyone else still gets the short ones. (I've noticed portia, on my Friends list, seems to be stuck with long ones now too.)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That malformed last sentence was supposed to refer to lj user portia, but I messed up the link.

[tytso.livejournal.com]

There are a couple of interesting options in the "Edit Personal Information" screen, including one near the end which has as its description. "Send HTML emails. Check this if your e-mail program fully supports HTML in your email. Many clients try to support it but fail horribly. If you uncheck it, LiveJournal will only send text e-mails." Maybe livejournal got confused and accidentally flipped some bits in your personal options section of your account?

There's also an interesting option labelled "Enable message boards. Check this if you want people to be able to reply to journal entries you post." Sounds like this somehow got hiccuped to off when you posted that last transaction, which is maybe why the "reply-to" link disappeared? I dunno..... sounds like there may be some bugs in LJ.
(But I guess you already knew that. <grin>

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the reminder! I'd forgotten about those settings. Going off to check them RIGHT NOW...!

Darn, they're looking just like I left them (no HTML, yes comments).

LJ has always sent me MIMEified stuff, but (to their credit) not full HTML. For which I am profoundly grateful.

Yet another great userpic! 8-)

[tytso.livejournal.com]

I wonder if someone is developing a new "feature" in LJ for sending MIME messages, and something in your profile is accidentally triggering the feature... it's the only explanation I can think of.... I assume you've tried contacting the LJ support folks?

Yeah, I've decided that aside from the obvious "Teddy Bear" relationship to my name, my personality definitely has some ursine characteristics. So I've been really partial to bear pictures. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

You're partially right: they're developing a new "feature". I just happened to be one of the early conversions. All links will look like that in the future. Pthththbtt.

Keep those bear pictures coming. :-)

[tytso.livejournal.com]

What mail-reader are you using? Maybe it wouldn't be too hard to hack it to do automatic de-MIME-ification?

At the moment, I only have those two bear pictures. But I'm looking for more. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Maybe somebody already has, and I just don't know where to find it. Emacs RMAIL.

I was just sure there was a place to poke around at everyone's LJ userpics, so you could plagiarize, but I guess not. I suppose you could see who's interested in bears, find good userpics, and ask the "owners" if you can copy them. :-)