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1st ISO Glebe night is TONIGHT!!
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As resuming Glebe nights look a while off sadly – I’ve offered to host a weekly Zoom meeting instead. A poor substitute but better than nothing!
Look at my post here: http://forum.tgr.net.au/cms/forum/F141/6863-iso-glebe-night#31168 -
The alarm bells should have rung a year ago when the small ISP we have been hosted with for over 17 years said they had sold up to a big international hosting company. Of course there would be great advantages in being part of a large company that offers so many services we don’t need or want. But it was business as usual and nothing changed.
The sirens should have gone off when I received an email telling me that our website was going to be ‘migrated’ And though lots of things would change as we ascended to their ‘cloud’ I wouldn’t have to do anything. What service was promised.
Of course they didn’t deliver – except for an email saying we had been migrated, here was my exciting new login, and by the way, it was time to pay the annual fee.
I started receiving emails intended for someone else, chunks of the forums fell apart, and all my email clients crashed.
Then I discovered that if you want to talk to someone technical who knows the difference between php and pop you have to hand over your credit card. Instead my emails about the obviously technical issues I faced were responded to by the level 1 ‘Have you tried plugging it back in’ helpless desk.
So we fixed things up the slow and time consuming way. It turned out the care they lavished on migration didn’t extend to ensuring that the environment on the new server was actually consistent with a web site developed more than 5 years ago.
You can tell I’m impressed.
But I fear there is worse to come. Next year when the hosting package bill is due I expect they will put up the price to reflect the improved level of service they are offering now.
Have a relaxing Easter..
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đź‘ż wandering off topic
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Hey the admin and moderator are both off-topic…..is this a first?
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I was born in pounds and measured in inches…the Metric Age came along later!
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TanyaHide wrote:It would be interesting to hear from some of the sub 5’10 girls if they would prefer to be taller. Everything’s relative I suppose and human nature is to want what we can’t have, but perspective is always a great leveller i find.
I don’t want to say anything that might make someone more sensitive about their height, because in the big picture it is just one way we can draw attention to ourselves. We broadcast our diversity with pretty obvious clues like hair, skin, voice, bone structure, height and so on. So it is unavoidable that we attract “the gaping stares and attention”. As Caroline says it is better to put your effort into being able to ignore unwanted attention rather than worry about things you can’t easily change such as your height.
That said I am a “sub 5’10″ girl by a few inches. And I have a different perspective on height perhaps. Even though I am not tall I do find height inconvenient at times – and as a result have very few heels in my wardrobe now. What I observe is that if you are taller it can often make a conversation with someone a lot shorter difficult. Stooping down to talk is not very feminine and is somewhat condescending. As the average Australian female is just 5’3” there are a lot of girls I find myself talking down to. I certainly wouldn’t want to be taller. And wouldn’t want to throw out all my clothes just for the convenience of being a few inches shorter. The status quo is really the best thing to live with.
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TinaMartini wrote:Mm I seem to not be getting them and I am on a gmail address….
There are no problems I can see with gmail – no bounces. If you don’t have a digest perhaps it is because you have logged on and read any posts on the website. If you are up to date on line then you don’t get a digest.
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Caroline wrote:Time to set an alternative email address I think.
Or perhaps write to yahoo and complain….
I can’t do anything as Yahoo doesn’t listen to the owners of websites it suspects as being spam. -
I have started to get a few bounces again. Probably because if there is nothing new on the website or you visit every day then no digests sent out. But tonight a couple of bounces show the yahoo block is still in place.
Quote:This is the mail system at host bsd28.qnetau.com.I’m sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It’s attached below.For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.
If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.The mail system
: host mta6.am0.yahoodns.net[67.195.228.94] said: 421
4.7.0 [TSS04] Messages from 202.146.211.10 temporarily deferred due to user
complaints – 4.16.55.1; see
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/postmaster/SLN3434.html (in reply to MAIL FROM
command): host mta6.am0.yahoodns.net[98.136.96.74] said: 421
4.7.0 [TSS04] Messages from 202.146.211.10 temporarily deferred due to user
complaints – 4.16.55.1; see
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/postmaster/SLN3434.html (in reply to MAIL FROM
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Has anyone on yahoo email received a digest yet? I’ve stopped getting bounce messages today.
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I wouldn’t recommend doing anything (other than perhaps complaining to Yahoo). This happens every couple of years and as the message says it is only temporary. If our server doesn’t make it into the Bad Boy lists of problem servers Yahoo will quietly drop the ban. hang in there – you can always log in and read the new forum posts and your messages directly!
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What a great venue for a Christmas get-together! Wow – they even put on a fireworks show for us. A big thank you to Caroline, who in her tireless search for venues found the Blackbird. It was lovely to see such a big turn-out and made a great start to the Christmas Party season. Next year??????
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No problems for me loading under Windows or Android and NBN.
I guess I’m running with running with my shields down – all this paranoia about websites is enough to give one a psychiatric condition…
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Good peer-reviewed studies on transgender mental health are few and far between. I have a few that I’ll post on this thread to illuminate the issues we face, both in understanding the challenges, and also helping people through them.
Levels of anxiety and depression in transgender people
accessing services: A large matched control study.This paper presented at the 2017 2nd EPATH conference: Contemporary Trans Health in Europe has an abstract on-line.
This paper looks at mental health of people seeking to transition. It is a BEFORE study so tells us nothing about what happened AFTER.
Quote:Background
Anxiety and depression are serious disorders which significantly impact upon a person’s wellbeing and quality of life. The transgender population is reported to be at an increased risk for such disorders, with symptoms often associated with other difficulties such as discrimination in employment, abuse and harassment, and lack of gender confirming treatment. While studies that have sought to investigate the prevalence of these disorders in the transgender population have offered valuable insight, the data are often limited by small sample sizes, the lack of control for known factors that affect symptomology (age and gender), and the selection of non-homogenous groups of transgender people; that is, those at varying points in their treatment.The study looked at 913 people attending a UK gender clinic. It only looked for evidence depression and anxiety. These were matched with individuals from the general population by age and experienced gender. Analysis revealed that transgender individuals were significantly more likely to have anxiety disorder and/or depressive disorder compared to cisgender individuals.
In the group low self-esteem and interpersonal function significantly predicted both anxiety
and depressive symptoms, while less social support also predicted the latter. The study also (rather unsurprisingly) found that the use of cross-sex hormones was associated with lower levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms in transgender individuals.The study concluded:
Quote:Conclusion
This large scale, matched control study confirms that non-treated transgender individuals are at an increased risk of disorders that impact upon their wellbeing. This risk is predicted by other factors indicative of reduced quality of life, such as low self-esteem, poor interpersonal skills and lack of social support. Interventions aimed at developing interpersonal skills, increasing self-esteem and improving social support may prepare the individual for a more successful transition.