it’d be great if the link included in e-mail that a threat one is watching would lead directly to the new posts and not just dumbly to the top of the thread.

just a thought.  shouldn’t be too dificult to implement.

[quote author=ekkis link=board=a-suggest;num=1031349361;start=0#0 date=09/06/02 at 17:56:00]it’d be great if the link included in e-mail that a threat one is watching would lead directly to the new posts and not just dumbly to the top of the thread.

Being an intermittent slow dial up user, I’d welcome a clear indication of the topic in the email subject. Then when several arrive in a day for a single topic, the extras could easily be deleted.

For those of us who don’t ask for notification e-mails (I’ve been away a few days - is that emails or Emails?)  It would be very useful if it were possible to do something like "view all new posts since I was last here", or "view all new posts since date/time".

I might add, for those who think this is unreasonable, that the first time I used a bulletin board/discussion service was in the late 70s/early 80s and it had this ability.  I might add that most users at that time were lucky if they were able to gain access at speeds as high as 2400 bps and finding your way unaided to the new posts would have been near to impossible.

Anyone else ancient enough to remember "Forum", originally called "Continuum" (I think) and first implemented on the late-lamented Multics operating system?  It was later ported (probably before the expression "ported" in this sense became current) to the late-unlamented GCOS8 operating system.

[quote author=DerekB link=board=a-suggest;num=1031349361;start=0#2 date=09/10/02 at 12:53:50]It would be very useful if it were possible to do something like "view all new posts since I was last here ..."

Derek, my browser seems to already provide a pointer to this, by visibly flagging topics (with a green yourdictionary logo) and threads (with the word "new") that have new posts since I last visited. It’s then a simple matter to scoot through the new postings. If this sort of tagging isn’t occurring for you, maybe Brad can say why not.

Grant

I keep apologizing because the features of this board are fairly limited.  I too am annoyed that I can’t simply go to a page with links to all the new items since I was last here (a feature fairly common on other boards).

When we went to install software, we were limited in our choices because our servers aren’t running PHP or MySQL which are necessary for the better forum scripts.  YaBB was the best cgi script I could find that would run on our servers.

As I have said before, we are in the process of doing some major server overhauling and I hope to have PHP in the near future.  Don’t ask me to define "near" in that last sentence because I can’t.

Thanks for all the feedback.  I need to know what people want so that I can work to make sure we get it.

Brad

Ah, right. I see how a page of just the new items is better than a lot of signposted ways to the new items, especially if your modem connection was slow - you don’t want to spend ages waiting for pages of stuff you’ve largely seen already to load.

Grant

At the bottom of the front page there is a link under the Forum Statistics header that says "View the 10 most recent posts of this forum.  Unfortunately it lists them out of context of the threads in which they appear, so it’s a bit confusing but it’s something.

A possible solution to a lot of these defrugalties is to allow a user to DOWNLOAD messages, (by date range, topic, member name, [s] barometric pressure, phase of the moon, sea state, [/s] etc.)  to a folder on the user’s C:\ drive in some standard format.

Possible name for folder, (changable  by user):
"Agora Downloads"

Name for member of folder would be Subject + seq #

Example name for member of folder:

"Shoes and ships and sealing wax 0001"

Format of contents of member of folder:

(MemberName//Date//text)

Example contents of member of folder:
"Rumplestiltskin//12/01/2002//"The sea IS boiling hot…"

Once it’s there, I can sort/search/etc. using Windows Explorer/MS WORD or some other editor.

The above are only suggestions; someone with a lotta brains will prolly have a better idea!

TO WIMC:
Please excuse any spelling [s]misteaks[/s] mistayks in my typing.
BTW, Why isn’t there a spell checker here?

It’s emails (or e-mails).

We’ve been down that road before.  There’re 45 replies to the E-mails? post to carefully peruse in your spare time.    I don’t believe there was any general agreement!

And now that Stargzer added a reply to this, I have seen the fruit of the overly-large-avatar setting change, and… I have to say, ekkis’s mug is rather imposing at that size, isn’t it?!

[quote author=Tim Ward link=board=a-suggest;num=1031349361;start=0#10 date=02/10/03 at 17:26:30]I have to say, ekkis’s mug is rather imposing at that size, isn’t it?!

Tee hee!  (I thought the same!)  Now I can finally see that the black patch to the right is not a shadow but his "offensive" shoulder-length hair.  :)

Really? The picture seemed clearer to me when it was smaller - much better resolution then.

Anyway, if his hair’s offensive, mine must be unspeakable.  ;D

E-mail and email are interchangable. You should "ask" the dictionaries, not laymen.

Shoulder length hair, unspeakable? Offensive?

Nay! This is one woman who thinks more men could do with a lot fewer visits to the scissors wielders! I think most men look much better with long hair than with short hair. And the shaved styles lately in fashion are nauseating! Ick! Skinheads! I think that men are perhaps trying to make up for baldness as a loss by pretending they MEANT to do that.
Hahaha!

Patricia/AgDrgn

That definitely is my intention when the time comes.  And I can already see that train at the end of the tunnel.

-Tim