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That was so important I thought it was good to repeat it. Now, who needs to know how I did that quote thing?

your humble TubaDiva

I do! LOL

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Fichchef
You are a child of the Universe...blah blah blah

Me too Tuba. How to "Quote" that is.......

Me too Tuba. How to "Quote" that is....... Never mind, I read the FAQ likea good boy. :)

That was so important I thought it was good to repeat it. Now, who needs to know how I did that quote thing?

I do! LOL
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Fichchef
You are a child of the Universe...blah blah blah

Me too Tuba. How to "Quote" that is.......

Hi guys, GREAT to see you!

Okay, it's all about square brackets. You remember those? [ ] This time you put stuff IN 'em like so . . . the square bracket starts ([) and you put QUOTE and then the end of the bracket (]) and that turns it on . . . you cut and paste what you need to quote . . and at the end of it you put another square bracket ([)/quote(]) and that turns it off. [b]Of course you don't use those parenthesis, I put those around the brackets so as not to invoke the command.

To see more of these fun codes, look here:
http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/ubbcode.html

your humble TubaDiva
easy does it!

Well, I must say it is definitely more complicated, and it's gonna take some getting used to, but I think it will be much better! You guys have done a pretty good job from what I can tell;-)

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Money can't buy love, but it'll buy one more round!

CatBiker
Member posted 03-11-99 12:58 AM
<QUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>_____
Me too Tuba. How to "Quote" that is.......
______Never mind, I read the FAQ like a good boy.<HR></QUOTE>

Sorry, Cat, I'm not picking on you; however, I just felt the need to show the Teeming Millions my favourite way of quoting on a UBB powered board and your posting seemed the most convenient. And, for those interested, the quote lines inside the quote have to me inserted manually (they're 80 characters long.

Cheers!
-Chip

Chip, you've made the line too long! I'm trying to edit this now . . . your humble TubaDiva


[Note: This message has been edited by TubaDiva]


[Note: This message has been edited by Ed Zotti]

Now, who needs to know how I did that quote thing?

If I did this right, I'll never need to know again...crossing fingers.

Call me crazy, but I could've sworn that little lightbulbs were supposed to pop up whenever new posts were added. If this is so, it didn't work for me. Anybody have any insight on what's happening here?

Thanks to Monty's 80 character quote lines, now ALL the posts run off the side of the browser, and I have to scroll back and forth to read them. Gee thanks. :P

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&gt;^,,^&lt;
"Cluemobile? You've got a pickup..."
The Teeming Millions Homepage: http://fathom.org/teemingmillions

OpalCat
Member posted 03-11-99 03:50 AM
<QUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>
Thanks to Monty's 80 character quote lines, now ALL the posts run off the side of the browser, and I have to scroll back and forth to read them. Gee thanks. :P<HR></QUOTE>

Sorry about that, Opal. Maybe this will help: next time I quote something within a quote, I'll try it this way:
<QUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>
__________
example
__________
The above is an example.<HR></QUOTE>

Another thing is the UBB, supposedly, resizes to your browser window. How it does this, I haven't the faintest. Sometimes minimizing and then restoring the browswer window works, sometimes it doesn't.

Cheers!
-Chip

Chip, if you use that command again, I will kill you. Are we clear on that? your humble TubaDiva
PS I DO love you. But don't do this.

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StaceyLyn writes:

Call me crazy, but I could've sworn that little lightbulbs were supposed to pop up whenever new posts were added. If this is so, it didn't work for me. Anybody have any insight on what's happening here?

Stacey, are you not seeing the light bulbs at all? If so, this may be because you have cookies turned off on your browser. Alternatively - and I don't know how this would have occurred in your case - you may have "favorite placed" a version of the SDMB URL with "Cookies=False" at the end of it, which disables cookies. At any rate, I had this problem myself for a while and cookies were at the bottom of it.

... and cookies were at the bottom of it.

GOT MILK?


sorry, couldn't help myself. :)



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SIMFOG ;)

Boy, oh boy, oh boy. This is going to take some getting used to. But I can`t get any profiles up. First two I tried were fine, and now none.

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Granny

I think I've successfully navigated through all the hoops in order to post a reply. I can get used to anything, but please don't make me scroll back and forth in order to read messages!

I have to agree with the previous posters on this one...this scrolling left-to-right-to-left is getting old in a hurry. Granted, I have a short fuse this morning, so that may attribute to my ire.

Also, is there a spell check feature anywhere in here?

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Jeremy....

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine - Kurt Vonnegut

There's currently no spell checker; possibly this may be included in a future upgrade. The right-to-left scrolling thing happens when somebody types in a long line without any spaces between characters. Ain't namin' no names here, but that's what happened on this thread. Normally the text adjusts to the size of the browser window.

There's currently no spell checker; possibly this may be included in a future upgrade. The right-to-left scrolling thing happens when somebody types in a long line without any spaces between characters. Ain't namin' no names here, but that's what happened on this thread. Normally the text adjusts to the size of the browser window.

Okay, I just did some editing, which I hope has fixed our line overrun problem. (Again, Monty, don't make me come to your house and hurt you.)

I see the AOL Spell Checker does not work in this application. Damn!

your humble TubaDiva

NO C&P

I solved the scrolling-back-and-forth problem the old-fashioned way...I maximized the window. and it works just fine that way. Or were y'all talking about something else?

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Dick Macy
I couldn't care less about apathy.

Just wanted to say hello. It will take me a while to get used to this UBB stuff, but I'm usually slow at this technological stuff.



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SoxFan59
"Its fiction, but all the facts are true!"

Just wanted to say hello. It will take me a while to get used to this UBB stuff, but I'm usually slow at this technological stuff.



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SoxFan59
"Its fiction, but all the facts are true!"

Well, there you go. Here I've posted my previous post twice, through some goofy glitch in explorer. Go figure. sorry!

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SoxFan59
"Its fiction, but all the facts are true!"

OK, I edited Monty's friggin 80 character post - I love the superpowers you get with this board - so the right/left scrolling deal went away. Don't nobody do this again, heah?

Ok, but the hard part is people signing on under new screen names...

Okay, I just did some editing, which I hope has fixed our line overrun problem. (Again, Monty, don't make me come to your house and hurt you.)

I see the AOL Spell Checker does not work in this application. Damn!

your humble TubaDiva

I just C&P what I write here or any other non AOL message board to an AOL text window and do my spell checking there. Or I do it in Windows Word from Microsoft Office 98. Then I C&P back here, it's quick and easy.


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~Shane (Formerly StrTrekNut)
http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/sandringham/241/index.html

Hi, just thought I'd try posting to see if my sig is okay. I can't figure out how to quote yet, but I'm sure I'll learn in time. :)

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HyperSnark

Never underestimate the power of large people in stupid groups.

Not bad....aesthetically, more pleasing than I expected. If, as it appears, the threads are listed in actual order of response, that's another plus.

But is there any such thing as "list unread?" If not, the appeal could diminish real fast--I mean, who wants to scroll through dozens of messages to find where they left off?

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Alan

No C&P. Wanna know why?

'Cuz there's no way to select the text that appears on my screen!

Mac, Netscape Navigator 4.0, frustrated.



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Designated Optional Signature at Bottom of Post

['Cuz there's no way to select the text that appears on my screen!

Mac, Netscape Navigator 4.0, frustrated.—me]

OK, got it now, never mind.

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Designated Optional Signature at Bottom of Post

[QUOTE['Cuz there's no way to select the text that appears on my screen!

Mac, Netscape Navigator 4.0, frustrated.—me]

OK, got it now, never mind./quote]

Well, I got the select and copy part at any rate. Now let's see if I can make it do the quote thingie...



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Designated Optional Signature at Bottom of Post

Okay, it's all about square brackets. You remember those? [ ] This time you put stuff IN 'em like so . . . the square bracket starts ([) and you put
QUOTE *and then the end of the bracket (])* and that turns it on . . . you cut and paste what you need to quote . . and at the end of it you put another
square bracket ([)/quote(]) and that turns it off. [b]Of course you don't use those parenthesis, I put those around the brackets so as not to invoke the
command.
(emphasis added)

I *am* intelligent, I *am* intelligent «sulk»



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Designated Optional Signature at Bottom of Post

I love it! I only wish that we could set profiles like these in alt.fan.cecil-adams.

Best regards from Deborah

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I've found that if I use Ed's hyperlink from AOL, everything works well. However, if I manually type in the www address, it messes up. This morning I didn't use the hyperlink, and when I maximized the window, the scroll bars were off the screen. I used the hyperlink this time, and all is well with the world.

Now, who needs to know how I did that quote thing?

your humble TubaDiva


I think I'm doing it right. I guess I'll find out when this post shows up.


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Shadowfox
"Brought to you by the Ministry of Silly Walks

OK, I'm replying to what CK said about "the hard part being people that register under a different name.

First, yes, I know --in theory---how to quote. For some reason however, I can't copy and paste into this reply box. Copy seems to work, but paste does nothing. Ctrl+C boots me off AOL. It's just been o e of those days.

No, I didn't register under my AOL SN. I have always used my work SN for posting to the SDMB, and I felt fairly sure that none of my professional associates would ever "discover" the MB.

But if I use my SN on a web board, a web search might make my posts accessible to anyone that's curious. I have my SN spam-blocked when I post to Usenet for the same reason.

I'm not being paranoid----I'm just assuming that other people might have the same capacity for evil, sneaky revenge that I do, and face it, we do get rather personal on the MB. I've copped to lots of interesting facts about people I work with by searching out their SN's and/or full names on the Web and Usenet.

Just yesterday I discovered (via a Usenet search) that one of the sales managers for a competing company offered up a week at a corporate condo as a reward for anyone than could help him sell his house. I'm fairly sure that this is a big-assed violation of their corporate policy-but I'm not going to do anything with this information unless the guy pisses me off.

So -LTControls- is assuming that their are people out there as sneaky and evil as she is and therefore will be using the name "Barbara" here. I'm sure you all will be able to deal with it.

BTW, I'm not really happy that a web search turns up my purity score - and I will ask Opal to rectify the situation as soon as possible.

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Barbara

I think I'm doing it right. I guess I'll find out when this post shows up.

Me, too. Maybe someone (not me, apparently) should start a "Test" thread...

From what I can tell, there's still going to be a lot of up and down scrolling on here. *sigh* Too bad no one has coded a perfect MB yet.

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nuqDaq yuch Dapol? (Where do you keep the chocolate?)

Me, too. Maybe someone (not me, apparently) should start a "Test" thread...
-Kat

I think there is one.

I know that was an amazingly unintelligent reply but I'm testing the quoting method myself.



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Pamela

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Ed Zotti

I have to say I'm very impressed. I thought this board would suck, but it is very nice except for one thing: you can't mark posts read. PLEASE fix this ASAP! I've read many similar complaints so far. But other than that, it's a great board. :)

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HyperSnark

I thought this board would suck, but it is very nice except for one thing: you can't mark posts read. PLEASE fix this ASAP!

Hyper, I don't think you understand. It isn't something that needs to be "fixed" because it is not broken. It is a feature that the software does not have. Ed did not write the software. Even if he has the programming knowledge to hack the software to add such a feature, this is highly frowned upon and probably specifically prohibited by the user agreement.

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&gt;^,,^&lt;
"Cluemobile? You've got a pickup..."
The Teeming Millions Homepage: http://fathom.org/teemingmillions

Hyper, I don't think you understand. It isn't something that needs to be "fixed" because it is not broken. It is a feature that the software does not have. Ed did not write the software. Even if he has the programming knowledge to hack the software to add such a feature, this is highly frowned upon and probably specifically prohibited by the user agreement. - OpalCat



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HyperSnark

Heh, oops. I forgot to add my comments in my last post. But anyway . . . yes, Opal, I'm aware that Ed cannot "hack" the software, and that he cannot just wave a magic wand and make it so posts can be marked read. The meaning of my post was, that I was requesting that the writers of the software be notified that we would like the feature of marking posts read. I should have been more clear, sorry. :)

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HyperSnark

I think there is one.

I know that was an amazingly unintelligent reply but I'm testing the quoting method myself.

If you're talking about the experiment thread, yeah, but it wasn't up then. Anyway, the comment was <FONT COLOR="PURPLE">really</FONT> just a hastily conceived sentence added to keep that post from being a one-liner :) (I was testing the quote command also).

I agree with Snark that being able to mark posts/threads read would be a big plus. Do the software people welcome suggestions?

I have a question my-own-self: Do posts drop off/expire after a certain time (or will the moderators take them off the page after a certain time)? If not, even if the posters <FONT COLOR="PURPLE">do</FONT> start up new threads for tangents/topic changes some of these pages are going to get pretty long. And if so, are they going to be archived somewhere (onsite or offsite)?

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nuqDaq yuch Dapol? (Where do you keep the chocolate?)

I generaly like the board. The search feature is a wonder. The reply window on the other hand...the ability to include images is cool but if it gets popular these pages are going to take forever to download.

{{I'm not being paranoid----I'm just assuming that other people might have the same capacity for evil, sneaky revenge that I do, and face it, we do get rather personal on the MB. I've copped to lots of interesting facts about people I work with by searching out their SN's and/or full names on the Web and Usenet. }} Barbara

Barbara, when it comes to evil, sneaky revenge, you are the Queen. And you're someone I don't want to anger.



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Lynn the Packrat

Testing. Please ignore.

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P[FONT COLOR="PURPLE"]amel[/FONT COLOR]a
I was taught to be charming, not sincere.
-Into the Woods

[Quote]{{I'm not being paranoid----I'm just assuming that other people might have the same capacity for evil, sneaky revenge that I do, and face it, we do get rather personal on the MB. I've copped to lots of interesting facts about people I work with by searching out their SN's and/or full names on the Web and Usenet. }} Barbara
Barbara, when it comes to evil, sneaky revenge, you are the Queen. And you're someone I don't want to anger.
-Lynn[Quote]

Barbara is certainly the queen, :::waving at Barbara in the friendliest manner possible::: and FixedBack is the King. No contest, and let's not make one.

Hi, and welcome to the "About This Message Board" forum. Post here if you have comments or questions about how this message board works. But please, read the FAQ first, this will answer (we hope) the most commonly asked questions.

It'll take a while, but I can see some advantages to this format (will miss the "read/unread" functions, though). Did I miss it, or did the FAQs & UBB for dummies links deliberately NOT mention how to change font colors?

PS - how do I change my password?



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Sue from El Paso

how do I change my password?

Click on the "Profile" link at the top of the page. That should allow you to change any information about yourself that we have except for your screen name.



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Eutychus
http://www.disneyshorts.org

[quote]Hi, and welcome to the "About This Message Board" forum. Post here if you have
comments or questions about how this message board works. But please, read the
FAQ first, this will answer (we hope) the most commonly asked questions.[\quote]

Testing

Hi, and welcome to the "About This Message Board" forum. Post here if you have
comments or questions about how this message board works. But please, read the
FAQ first, this will answer (we hope) the most commonly asked questions.

Still testing

Absitively, posilutely love the new board!!
One liddle prollem, though, is the goodie at the bottom that explains "all times are CT".
Would you please change that to read Central Time (unless, of course, you really ARE in Connecticut, in which case you may ignore this goofy post).

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FixedBack

But, Fixed, as you may notice, although the sign at the bottom says "All times CT" , in fact the CT DOES stand for Connecticut time.
I am posting this at 8:47 PM Central time. The sign at the bottom says "All times CT (US)." See what it says as to time of post once I post it.

[QuoteBut, Fixed, as you may notice, although the sign at the bottom says "All times CT" , in fact the CT DOES stand for Connecticut time.
I am posting this at 8:47 PM Central time. The sign at the bottom ]
just trying to get this quote thing working..

[QuoteBut, Fixed, as you may notice, although the sign at the bottom says "All times CT" , in fact the CT DOES stand for Connecticut time.
I am posting this at 8:47 PM Central time. The sign at the bottom ]
just trying to get this quote thing working..

ok I figured it out now...

Testing my password change, but...

Another request to pass along to the developers is to re-make the cookie file whenever the profile info is changed, or on demand.

Thanks

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your humble TubaDiva/SDStaffDiv
for the Straight Dope

[Fat Man in the Bathtub]

Wanted to see if this thread was closed.