Having trouble posting In Prevention and Treatment

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Having trouble posting In Prevention and Treatment

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Since yesterday, I’ve tried multiple times to post in the recent thread titled “Sleep.” I keep getting this error message:

403
Forbidden

Access to this resource on the server is denied!

I’ve logged out and logged back in. Didn’t help. I quit and restarted my Safari browser. Didn’t help. I’ve tried posting on both my iPad and iMac.

Any ideas?
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I've had odd things like that happen to me before. Did you contact technical support: tech-team@apoe4.info
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Will do. Thanks, Theresa.
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The short answer is to rephrase any failing post to eliminate all left parentheses. Most of us can stop reading this post right here. :-)

The phpBB3 software that we use has a bug that causes posts containing certain sequences of the form "keyword(x" where keyword is any of a number of special words, and x is any non-space character. So for example, a prospective post containing any of these sequences will fail:

keyword(X
k ey word ( y
keywor d ()
keyword(-
try to keyword (happens occasionally)

You can reproduce this by attempting to post something containing a sequence like one of those above where you replace keyword with sleep, which is one of the special words.
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Thanks, Marc. I had a whopping six left parentheses in my text! None of them appeared to fit any of the patterns you listed, unless that last one is a catch-all for any usage of the left parenthesis. But I went ahead and took out all of them and just succeeded in posting my text. I’ll be sure to remember this tip.
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