Wow, I'm glad that your provider was able to help you fix this problem. I would never think of a provider doing some testing and then having a simple glitch. I don't know who you use is your provider, but I hope they never do that to me here. As I like being able to approve members via the web and do other things via the web when I have to do anything with the site.
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On Feb 15, 2025, at 3:53?PM, Dan Lepinski, P.E. via groups.io <Dan@...> wrote:
The more people commented they are (and were) not affected, the more convinced I became this was something that involved and impacted only me.
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Since by the process of elimination I'd ruled out my own hardware and software, I took the next logical step in the analysis process.
A few moments ago, I got off the phone with the tech support dept for my upline provider where I'd spent nearly a hour working with them to get this resolved. ?Turns out they are (or were) trying to implement a form of embedded VPN, and are using selected customers as guinea pigs. ?Problem is, they didn't tell their customers, including me. ?After some troubleshooting, it was determined that data streams for certain URLs are getting fractionally corrupted by their experimental VPN software. ?The flaw affected a fraction of sites, but not most others. ?Why there should be a difference with Groups.io groups, I don't know. ?Neither does my provider. ?They turned the function off on my end (it's firmware they downloaded into the modem), and as of a few minutes ago, I've regained normal "Owner" status on all four of my sites with no changes on my end.
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The tech wizards at my provider don't know how this experimental VPN firmware was causing the problem I described, but whatever it is .. Groups.io servers and/or software interpreted the data in a manner that caused the inconsistency I described.
To be candid, I'm not sure Mark could have figured it out because the issue occurs at a deep level within the code, and perhaps at the server level either at the Groups.io site, or somewhere between. ?My provider's test code was downloaded into my modem yesterday. ?As we all know, Microsoft is infamous for bugs in their code. ?This one was at my provider's end, not with MS, and it affected all of my systems regardless of the operating system or browser.
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Clearly this issue has stopped my provider from conducting any future testing until their glitch is corrected. ?They promised to tell me next time they try again, if ever.
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I will send an update to the Groups.io support e-mail and let them know this has been resolved.
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Thank you all for your input, comments, and suggestions.
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Dan
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