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    marye
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    As you may have noticed, we've just implemented a much-requested chatroom. It is quite simple and has few fancy features, but for the moment we just want it to work!

     Anyway, have at it, and post your thoughts, feature requests, effusive thanks to the tech team, etc., right here. Thanks!

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  • marye
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    you're right, this is really messed up
    I can't seem to fix it so I'm calling in the experts.
  • Gypsy Cowgirl
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    It....
    doesn't seem to be working......
  • Jake R
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    BTW
    this is the url: http://dead.net/forum/autumn-72-vine-part-1-september if you dont use this you will never see this is the sept 72 vine
  • Jake R
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    this one
    is completely fudged up. Any interest in sept 72? Lets start a new list unless whoever has it comes forward
  • mona
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    How long has chat been down???
    Many moons. Was told long ago it was passed on the the Tech guys. They moving much too slowwwwwww.Some of us are using Savage chat now bless him http://www.savagetek.com/sc/ If some of you are getting the chat it is a surprise to a lot. Also is a ton of Face book GD groups :)
  • marye
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    I've passed this to the tech guys
    in any case.
  • fluffanutter
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    Hmmmmm
    Interesting to note that it isn't just Mozilla people are having problems with. I'm hoping that the problem will clear up some time, regardless of who is responsible. It is possible that since this blogger posted the mentioned offenders have found a way to corrupt IE & Chrome. If you can see how your browser is redirecting you should be able to note if there are uninvited parties in the process.
  • marye
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    As far as I know, though
    people are having a problem with the chat room regardless of what browser they're using, so this is not a Firefox problem specifically.
  • marye
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    I will pass this on
    to the tech guys. Thanks.
  • Anna rRxia
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    This could be the problem: YOURS not THEIRS
    When you go to Chat Room and click on chat room in the upper left and watch how your browser is directed to attempt to get there, you might, as I have, seen B.scorecardrearch.com before your atempt failed. When I Googled that it came up with the following comment from this blogger (If you don't feel like reading the summation is that you need to get all of the fleas and ticks out of your computer -- yeah, you got'em and it'll cost you to get rid of 'em.) ***** ****** ***** For many of you who use the Firefox browser to access my blog Right Wing Nuthouse, you may have found reading it an impossibility over the last 10 days or so. I ask your pardon. I was unaware of the problem until a reader emailed me and mentioned it. I was having problems accessing the site myself but I thought it was specific to my computer and not a general problem with viewing the website in Firefox (IE and Google Chrome were unaffected.). It seems that an insidious, unwelcome, unasked for, should-be-criminal script was surreptitiously installed in the sidebar of my blog and was wreaking havoc with visitor’s computers. When clicking on the web address to The House, the site would appear briefly and then be redirected to something called B.scorecardresearch.com – except the script caused the site to hang forever leaving a blank page to look at. I tried to scrub it using every anti-spyware, anti-malware, anti-virus program I had – and some like Spybot I downloaded. Since I was unaware that the problem was a rogue, 3rd party script, the small piece of code laughed at my efforts to eradicate it. It sneered as I flailed about aimlessly, nearly weeping with frustration and anger, and vowing to take my revenge – if I ever managed to see my website again in Firefox. A search revealed that b.scorecardresearch.com was a webtracking company, carefully monitoring my keystrokes and website visits. I discovered upon visiting its website that I might opt out of participating in this gangster company’s information gathering. After clicking the “opt out” link, I was told the cookie would be inoperative. In this, they were correct – except the problem wasn’t with a cookie. The problem was that a script had been placed inside the blog infrastructure itself without my knowledge or permission. When I discovered that there were still problems with the site after opting out, I went to the Mozilla support forum and screamed for help. The good geeks at Mozilla came through in spectacular fashion. First, Gerv identified the problem: The sites which are having the problem include code from Technorati, which itself includes code from extreme-dm.com, which includes a reference to a script on the site b.scorecardresearch.com. For some reason, that script is not loading correctly, and it is not marked as inessential to the page, and so the page load is blocked. This is an example of why including scripts from a 3rd party site in your website is a dangerous thing to do. Do you trust everyone that the owner of that script trusts? So this is (probably) not a problem with Firefox. Then a good bit of luck; an expert in WordPress who had dealt with a similar problem on another website: WP Specialist: Had the same problem earlier with a client’s site. Do you have technorati called anywhere within your theme? Removing that from our site fixed the issue. From some reading I did, it’s apparently the latest update of FireFox causing the issue. (Which explains why it’s okay in IE and Chrome) Some “tracking scripts” are running wrong and causing the redirect. So, if you don’t have technorati going, trying disabling any of your java (i.e. twitter follow widgets) Please let me know if this helped (because I’m curious). Good luck! Sure enough, I accessed the blog innards and there it was – a script with “technorati” in the middle of it (I wish I had copied the script but was so excited to get rid of it I wasn’t thinking), sitting all by itself in my right hand sidebar, minding my business, not serving any purpose for the blog whatsoever. I removed it and all is well in blogland again. I have no idea how that script got there. I certainly wasn’t asked to participate in any kind of program that would monitor my surfing habits. Did Technorati place it there? My meager knowledge of how such scripts are installed makes that an open question. I know that it wasn’t there previously since I had occasion to work on the sidebar code from time to time over the last 5 years. It could have been there for months or, given the recent problems with accessing the site, just a matter of days. In the future, I will take no chances. I will no longer visit Technorati. And let this be a warning to everyone; no 3rd party scripts for your blog or browser. Unless you are absolutely sure what you are getting, it is best to steer clear of scripts from unknown sources. I learned that lesson the hard way. I hope you don’t have to. ***** ***** ****** After the recent news of the super malware out there right now it is frightening to see what these state-sponsored programs can do. How much more so these companies like Technorati & B.scorecardresearch.com & whoever else is out there.
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As you may have noticed, we've just implemented a much-requested chatroom. It is quite simple and has few fancy features, but for the moment we just want it to work!

 Anyway, have at it, and post your thoughts, feature requests, effusive thanks to the tech team, etc., right here. Thanks!

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those of you who mailed in for tickets: did you have any 3x5 index cards lying around? I believe the last time i used index cards was 1995 for the last GD tour. Anyway, I went out to buy some, and they were displayed next to the carbon paper, naturally. Regardless, I hope I get tix and wish I could find out what happens if we don't, regarding the M.O.s sent.
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Starting the next two days emails will go out. We have a 1 in 10 chance. Check out their site it has just been posted. Good luck to all.
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I've tried a couple of times to upload artwork on the 50th anniversary audio submissions section and it gives me the following error: The uploaded file was unable to be saved. The destination directory does not exist. Thoughts? Mike
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send me a PM with the details so I can get the tech folks to look at this. Thanks!
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I just tried to post a link to an - ahem - disgruntled poster for a '76 show on LMA and it has been eaten in the ether too...is this normal?
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We're testing a new version of the chat room, so please feel free to check it out and let us know if you run into any difficulties!
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Big upgrade, it's much appreciated! Thanks for everyone's hard work!
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the tech folks spent a lot of time on this to make sure it worked right. So far it seems to be pretty stable, which is a big plus!
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hEY ELVIN BISHOP AND WARREN ZEVON WAS THERE aFRIEND AND I HITCHED DOWN THERE FROM THE CITY WITH MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF DRUGS AND WEAPONS DONT ASK ME WHY AS IF WE WERE GOING TO GET ROBBED i HAD a SAWED OFF SHOTGUN IN MYBACK PACK bUT JUST WONDERING IF i JUST HALUCINATED ALL THAT 75 /76
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still party central, from what I hear.
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I've been on a 4 weeks holiday, and when I came back I found out that I fortunately still could download all the 30 DoD songs from this year that were posted after I went on a holiday.Can anyone tell me if there is a list somewhere with info about the venues and dates of this years 30 DoD tracks? Thanks in advance, Marinus
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http://www.whitegum.com/livedate/30days.htmhttp://gratefulseconds.blogs… 30 Days Of Dead 2015 Tracklist Day 1: Sunrise (11.2.77 Field House – Senaca College – Toronto – ON) Day 2: Crazy Fingers (7.13.76 Orpheum Theatre – San Francisco – CA) Day 3: Comes a Time (10.30.71 Taft Auditorium – Cincinnati – OH) Day 4: Estimated Prophet (5.4.77 The Palladium – New York – NY) Day 5: Dupree’s Diamond Blues (10.13.94 Madison Square Garden – New York – NY) Day 6: Feel Like a Stranger (4.19.86 Berkeley Community Theatre – Berkeley – CA) Day 7: Dark Star (4.20.69 Clark University – Worcester – MA) Day 8: China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider (3.16.73 Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum – Uniondale – NY) Day 9: The Music Never Stopped (5.7.78 Field House – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Troy – NY) Day 10: He’s Gone > Jam (2.26.81 Uptown Theatre – Chicago – IL) Day 11: Uncle John’s Band > U.S. Blues (7.25.74 International Ampitheatre – Chicago – IL) Day 12: Foolish Heart (7.10.89 Giants Stadium – East Rutherford – NJ) Day 13: Lost Sailor > Saint of Circumstance (10.31.79 Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum – Uniondale – NY) Day 14: My Brother Esau (4.14.84 Coliseum – Hampton – VA) Day 15: New Potato Caboose (6.8.69 Fillmore West – San Francisco – CA) Day 16: The Other One > Jam > I Know You Rider (3.31.73 War Memorial – Buffalo – NY) Day 17: St. Stephen (10.12.68 Avalon Ballroom – San Francisco – NY) Day 18: Blow Away (5.27.89 Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Stadium – Oakland – CA) Day 19: Ship of Fools (7.8.78 Red Rocks Ampitheatre – Morrison – CO) Day 20: Hell in a Bucket (6.26.94 Sam Boyd Silver Bowl – Las Vegas – NV) Day 21: Far From Me (4.13.83 Patrick Gymnasium – University of Vermont – Burlington – VT) Day 22: You Don’t Have to Ask (3.25.66 Troupers Hall – Los Angeles – CA) Day 23: China Doll (6.23.74 Jai-Alai Fronton – Miami – FL) Day 24: Black Throated Wind (10.23.73 Metropolitan Sports Center – Bloomington – MN) Day 25: Operator (9.18.70 Fillmore East – New York – NY) Day 26: Althea (9.9.82 Saenger Theatre – New Orleans – LA) Day 27: They Love Each Other (7.19.90 Deer Creek Music Center – Noblesville – IN) Day 28: Box of Rain (12.31.72 Winterland Arena – San Francisco – CA) Day 29: Lazy River Road (7.31.94 The Palace – Auburn Hills – MI) Day 30: Uncle John’s Band (9.29.77 Paramount Theatre- Seattle, WA)
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http://www.dead.net/show/july-4-1987 & Bob Dylan I know the setlist mentions his last name as having helped with the sound check, as well as his singular voice when he starts singing, but I think that “Guest Vocalist” or “Guest Appearance”, or some such statement at the first of the “Notes” section would be much more helpful than making us deduce for ourselves his presence. Not to mention the absolute absence of his first name. We wouldn't want anyone to assume y'all are trying to make us believe Dylan Ryder sat in with The band (Dylan Thomas (though I guess he could have 'attended' had his casket been exhumed)). Sorry. The places my mind goes...
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Been digging through Archive.org and saw a show I remember from the good ol' days of cassettes. October 10, 1982 Frost Amphitheatre show. A lot of good songs on there well performed. Might make for a good official release from Dave?
To that end, how about more shows from the 1980s. Love the 70s picks, but I cut my teeth on mid to late 80s dead and would love to hear some crispy 1980s shows...

Just throwin' it out there!