I consider myself to be above average on what's called computer literacy, I'm certainly "streetwise" & I'm big enough & tough enough to be scared of nothing this world can throw at me.

Yet, I have done a brief search of who exactly this Dr. Baker from "Southern Federation Website Automation" is in an attempt to make any sense from this nonsensical nonsense.

WTF is going on here?

And that link above takes me to a page tells me that I am using an unsupported browser & after some bullet-pointed spiel to please obtain another browser and try again.

But, actually I was using Internet Explorer version 11 (the last and fully supported) with all current updates. So, a fully up to date browser! Not good.

Regards,

Phil

Weary, I'm on Firefox and it works fine for me.

Mick, could you maybe explain your schizophrenia comment? I honestly have no idea what you're referring to, but if it's a comment on the perhaps rather basic web page design I feel it's unkind, especially considering that all involved are presumably volunteers.

I am one who agrees that there is no excuse for putting out an 'unsupported browser' message. There is nothing you can't do adequately with even much older versions of IE than version 11. The problem is geeks and kids who want to do something fancy with some new feature or are using some website builder tool that was created by one of these geeks.
The southern fed should be aware that their target market is likely to use an older version of IE and not be into using minority browsers, they should have tested against IE and made the effort to support it.

Back to the original problem too there is no excuse for sending out emails that at least in the first line of the message clearly explain who they are. This is the sort of sloppy performance I pull up our trainees on, before they get near to sending out internal inter-departmental communications let alone to customers.

When you sign up to this forum, the system sends you an email to confirm.

Guess what, when you sign up to the Southern Federation website, the system there also sends you an email to confirm.

Now as is the case in this forum, anyone can put anybody else's email address in the registration form. The process of using the email prevents that rouge person getting any further as well as confirming that a genuine registration did not have any typo in the address.

So now enter the Management of Brighton and Hove Society who combine inability to talk with each other and as Mike Charity says earlier in this thread "This is as classical an example of schizophrenia as you could ever wish to find . . ."

All that has happened is that the retiring Treasurer had the new Treasurer's details submitted to the SFMES records and the new Treasurer chose to go public rather than check with his colleagues when the system did its due diligence of telling him.

The Chairman of Brighton and Hove took the trouble to telephone me and apologies profusely about all this.

Its time this thread now got put to bed.

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Maybe you should be more concerned about the probity of this forum. Here am I entering data on this thread – but I did not get any confirmation email and so I have never proven that I am who I am. It is letting me enter comments without any diligence in verifying who I am?

I had a several weeks, some months ago, of getting several a day of similar emails, albeit a lot shorter and asking for different amounts of Bitcoin. Totally laughable for several reasons:

If I was looking at naughty websites I wouldn't be using my business email as the login

I couldn't care less if the supposed video was shared

Oh, and my computer is so old it doesn't have a camera!

Andrew