Are Yahoo Finance message boards working for anyone?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

When I try to go to http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=IBM, I am getting redirected back to http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=IBM. This did not happen before.

It looks like when I request http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=IBM, I am getting a HTTP 302 response back redirecting me back to http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=IBM. Is this happening to you too?

HTTP/1.1 302 Found

Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:09:55 GMT

Location: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=IBM

Connection: close

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Content-Type: text/html

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

When I try to go to http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=IBM, I am getting redirected back to http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=IBM. This did not happen before.

It looks like when I request http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=IBM, I am getting a HTTP 302 response back redirecting me back to http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=IBM. Is this happening to you too?

HTTP/1.1 302 Found

Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:09:55 GMT

Location: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=IBM

Connection: close

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Content-Type: text/html

it might be blocked at work for you. i just tried the first link and got there without a redirect.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Yes, I suspected as much. They're probably proxying it. The bastards.

[cmartyn 0]

Let me know what you want. Ill set up an RSS feed for you.

lol..

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ABE> Whats up with CHTR lately.

MIKE> CHARTER Is a farter..

FREEDOM35> Oh Yeah take that back this thing is going to the MOON! See you at 25.00!

WELLHEELED187> CHARTER Sux dude your a fool. Better off buying Enron

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[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Let me know what you want. Ill set up an RSS feed for you.

lol..

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ABE> Whats up with CHTR lately.

MIKE> CHARTER Is a farter..

FREEDOM35> Oh Yeah take that back this thing is going to the MOON! See you at 25.00!

WELLHEELED187> CHARTER Sux dude your a fool. Better off buying Enron

MIKE> Yeah your a total loser..

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i'll just wait till I get home. Thanks though.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I am home now and on my home PC and still can't get in to Yahoo Finance Message boards.

I just went on google groups and it looks like a small number of people besides myself are having the same problem. I wonder what's up

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=yahoo...06&safe=off

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

I am home now and on my home PC and still can't get in to Yahoo Finance Message boards.

I just went on google groups and it looks like a small number of people besides myself are having the same problem. I wonder what's up

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=yahoo...06&safe=off

works at home too. must be just you

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I am home now and on my home PC and still can't get in to Yahoo Finance Message boards.

I just went on google groups and it looks like a small number of people besides myself are having the same problem. I wonder what's up

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=yahoo...06&safe=off

works at home too. must be just you

Charles,

The snapshot - is that the page you get when you click on the link "Message Board" on the left nav? If it is, it's not supposed to be. Taht's what I'm getting too. What I want to see is an actual message board with posts.

Edited September 18, 2006 by Gupt

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

I am home now and on my home PC and still can't get in to Yahoo Finance Message boards.

I just went on google groups and it looks like a small number of people besides myself are having the same problem. I wonder what's up

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=yahoo...06&safe=off

works at home too. must be just you

Charles,

The snapshot - is that the page you get when you click on the link "Message Board" on the left nav? If it is, it's not supposed to be. Taht's what I'm getting too. What I want to see is an actual message board with posts.

that's a screenshot of what comes up. on the left hand side is that dang money thing which i hate.

on this link btw http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=IBM

Edited September 18, 2006 by charlesandnessa

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Charles,

The snapshot - is that the page you get when you click on the link "Message Board" on the left nav? If it is, it's not supposed to be. Taht's what I'm getting too. What I want to see is an actual message board with posts.

that's a screenshot of what comes up. on the left hand side is that dang money thing which i hate.

on this link btw http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=IBM

Ok, so it's not working for you either. Thanks.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Yahoo Message Boards Crash, Millions Displaced

In a shocking upheaval unseen since the terrible days of Hurricane Katrina, a server maintenence upgrade resulting in interrupted access to Yahoo's notorious message boards has left "millions of panicked posters displaced" according to Yahoo spokeswoman Sarojini Naidu.

"Yahoo message boards are the biggest meeting place on the planet." Boasted Naidu. "We recently upgraded our hosting servers, and the boards have been down for 4 days for file maintenence. We knew there would be a fair measure of uproar, but not of these proportions. It is almost biblical in scope, quite shocking."

An understatement, indeed.

Yahoo message boards have become the Internet's most politicized and traveled public forum. By slyly avoiding almost all forms of moderation, Yahoo webmasters allow regular members, called "trolls", to post any and all subjects with apparent impunity from censorship or cancellation of service. Sexism, racism, political partisanism and even overt threats and obscenities are all allowed to ring free and unfettered on Yahoo, resulting in the Web's --and probably the world's-- most ferocious socio-political battleground seen or heard since the great civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960's.

When Yahoo message boards crash, millions crash along with it.

Obsessive Yahoo troll Kris Kanker, a.k.a. "chimp_in_charge" snarled and fumed

"This is bullshit! Yahoo makes all that money from the ads, the least they can do is keep their ###### servers up and running. I have a running political agenda to spout and cons to crush over here, and Yahoo boards are the only place I can get it done right. Get your ###### together, Yahoo!"

All across America, malaise-ridden, dysphoric Yahoo trolls scrambled to find a suitable substitute for their insatiable flame lust, but none would satisfy or suffice. Things began to get done. Lawns were cut. Children were helped with their homework for the first time in months, walls were washed and painted, and even garbage was bagged and curbed. Something wonderful was happening. A chrysalis burst forth, unfurling to the light of day.

"I-I need my Yahoo!" Wailed Belinda Krale, a.k.a. 'katnipsoxx', "There's an entire world full of ####### out there who don't know they're #######! It's my job to fill them in! I-I...*sob!"

Fortunately, the file transfer upgrade would soon be resolved, and the painful withdrawal symptoms of the Yahoo legions would be fed and satiated once more. A Fix for the Ages, a morphium for all of mankind.

"We never expected our forums to get this big." Pondered Naishu "It just goes to show that people want to be heard and express their views, and they think that our boards give them a sense of power and purpose, as well as a vehicle to drive them home with. Our boards are what make Yahoo Yahoo. They are also what make us controversial. It's a mixed blessing in many ways."

The Yahoo programmers responsible for the forum downtime shrugged off any criticism, shrewdly noting "If you run out of pain medication on the weekend, sometimes you get the doctor on call, and sometimes you don't."

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