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Problem inserting links
Not seen this before, error when inserting a link, to Microsoft support articles and discussions here, I get an error, happened a few times today (annoying!)
Anyone else seeing this?
- Hi all,
Thanks for reporting, this was caused by some extra filtering on number strings due to a large number of spam posts coming in with phone numbers in them.
Unfortunately this has he side effect of preventing posting legitimate posts that have matching number strings in them. If we changed the regex to only prevent posts that were in the format of n(nnn)-nnn-nnnn then spammers would just not post in that format.
I am keeping it under review and may well turn off the block again in the mean time my advice would be to avoid posting strings of numbers if at all possible.
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- Allen
Community Manager
Hi all,
Thanks for reporting, this was caused by some extra filtering on number strings due to a large number of spam posts coming in with phone numbers in them.
Unfortunately this has he side effect of preventing posting legitimate posts that have matching number strings in them. If we changed the regex to only prevent posts that were in the format of n(nnn)-nnn-nnnn then spammers would just not post in that format.
I am keeping it under review and may well turn off the block again in the mean time my advice would be to avoid posting strings of numbers if at all possible.Allen, thank you for the clarification. For a while we will survive with this, but hope you'll find another solution.
On the one hand phone numbers could be without dashes (I usually use them with spaces notation).
On the other hand with some resources becomes harder to work (URLs, Excel discussions with numbers inside, etc.)
Hi Cian,
Received the same couple of minutes ago, in my case it was another number-dash-number combination within the plain text like
The message is
Thanks for confirming SergeiBaklan! I have also seen different number combinations, three times yesterday, haven't tried again since.
