Not allowed to reply?

[RandomLunatic]

I was just trying to post a reply to the BattleTech thread in Other Gaming, but when I went to preview it, I got redirected to a 403 forbidden white page which read "You don't have permission to access /forums/newreply.php on this server."

I tried replying to a couple other random threads around the forum and got the same result.

Curiously, it still lets me start new threads.

[Zherog]

You likely hit the filter put on the site by the host. Did you post contain the word "lynx" followed by a space, or a colon followed by two spaces? Those are the two most common causes.

If so, to fix it:

lynx

To fix the colon plus two spaces, just remove one of the spaces - you don't need it anyway, since your browser will display one space.

[RandomLunatic]

Yes, actually, I did. Thanks.

That is a curiously random restriction...

[Douglas]

That is a curiously random restriction...
It has to do with one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(protocol)) of (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)) these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(programming_language)), and possible ways for a hacker to exploit security holes to break into a server that uses it.

[Rawhide]

It has to do with one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(protocol)) of (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)) these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(programming_language)), and possible ways for a hacker to exploit security holes to break into a server that uses it.

None of which are actually installed on the server, making this an extra pointless block, but it comes as part of the package.