Brian

ISP's are slowly putting measures in place to mitigate the various attempts at DDOS. It's a very complicated process, but it's going to get better, not worse. We'll be back to normal soon.

The first thing you need to do is see if they are registered and licensed in Japan. If not, you have a whole other set of problems to deal with. If not, this video is very informative.

It is absolutely stunning work. I agree with Colin. Wow...a real privilege to see it.

Title edited. This is not the place to call out someone, and I won't have my forum used for that. You have adequate info in the sale post.

Why would we fill the translation section with kanji that is on a fake? Translating fake items is pointless once they are identified.

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/cloud-hosting/651047-south-african-internet-company-hit-by-large-scale-ddos-attack.html This is our hosts.

Welcome and best of luck Lex!

Can only be the same issue, and I read some analysis of the methods being used for these attacks and they are extremely difficult for ISP's to mitigate. Just have to wait it out until the issue is over I'm afraid.

This is a for sale post, create a new thread if we want to discuss data.

10mm and 25mm

Have to mention, that is stunning craftmanship!

Note, I have made a change to the above template, and added a "Returns Policy" to the template. Note, nothing is mandatory about the fields in the template, but sellers should consider using it, and consider adding your returns policy clearly, for buyers to make a decision on a purchase. It is highly recommended and I think a good thing to consider and clarify before making a purchase.

Not going to allow people to start commenting in sale posts and linking elsewhere. It's buyer's responsibility to search the forum and read through posts to find vouches or previous deals. And that would open the forum to a ton of problems. What happens when someone has a bad deal with a popular seller? Allow someone to post on all his sales and link to their bad experience? Plus..I refuse to be a judge and decide on a matter and who is wrong or right. You had a bad experience. Maybe someone else had a good one. No forum allows comments in sale posts linking to a past experience, hope you understand the complexity of that and why we can't.

Correct. Only items of significance are stored, and usually not lower end items or tosogu etc unless the buyer/seller requests it We also tend to archive sword sales and better items of Gold members, one of the little "perks" of Gold membership. I don't archive everything. You guys would need to fund waaaay more storage space if we did

Uwe ( @CSM101 ) Has provided us with an incredibly useful English index to the free Token Bijutsu newsletters in the downloads section. This makes the extremely useful articles therein very accessible and will be a great help. The Index is uploaded in the downloads section. Thanks Uwe.

Very unusual and attractive. Good buy for someone.

It does look odd, but there is enough there that I get the feel it's real. But it certainly is odd and needs a lot more pics. Which school signed on the blade, not the nakago? There is one...

With reference to the replies now moved elsewhere: Guys, this is NOT the place for this, and it sets a really bad precedent. I do not want this sort of thing happening in sales posts, if we allow it then it becomes a free for all. That said, we are here to protect the community and also cannot just ignore it when sellers or buyers have an issue, and they need to hash it out with right of reply and people can make up their own minds. I have a Catch 22 here. Allow it and open the forum for fights on every sale post, or delete it completely and then we are not looking out for the community. So I am going to take the middle ground and continue with the policy of not allowing this sort of thing in sales posts. BUT I am shortly going to split this into a new thread and put it in the Sales/Sellers section, where people can discuss good and bad deals with sellers. I hope everyone understands that is best compromise I can come to right now. Shortly this will be moved, and will formulate a title there where seller/buyer can discuss this and lay out their case.

I anyone compiling these into a pdf? Thank you Rohan, we all appreciate you sharing.

It's all over the news here, and apparently is continuing. https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/648580-massive-internet-problems-in-south-africa-2.html

I was told there was an issue but by the time I logged in, all was working fine. The whole of SA has had some serious internet disruptions the past few days. Apparently massive DDOS attacks launched against all the ISP's, and most have had some serious problems, so I'm guessing that was part of it. No-one knows why or by whom, but it's a large one, and taken down most of the providers for a bit. I expect there may be some lingering issues over the next few days.

Yeah, but it's only really ayasugi hada that comes close to people's expectation of damascus

They pop up occasionally. Junk with a signature. There was one on Pawn Stars

Because he's probably using a translator and copying/pasting and not choosing to remove formatting, so it pastes the format from the website it was copied from. Have mentioned this numerous times. It even gives you the option to remove formatting when you paste it. Oh well.

It's been discussed here often. There are PLENTY of sellers who are listing items that are for sale elsewhere, for much higher prices. If they sell it, they attempt to buy it from the original seller, and make a profit. If they cannot get it, they cancel the sale. Not illegal, but highly frowned upon. But we have seen many sellers of tsuba etc on eBay listing stuff that is for sale on Yahoo Jpn etc. Not uncommon at all.