There is a message board that’s on the fritz. You can reply to a post, but you can’t start a new thread (nothing happens when you push the “post a new topic” button). Someone named Sam created a new thread and then wrote:
change the ‘{’ to ‘less than’ signs
the ‘}’ to ‘greater than’ signs
: try copying the html below into a file on your local drive (the forum will not allow html in the posts). It will give you a form into which you can post a new topic.
: {!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN”}
: {HTML}{HEAD}{TITLE}Post a new topic{/TITLE}
: {META http-equiv=Content-Type content=“text/html; charset=windows-1252”}
: {META content=“MSHTML 5.50.4134.100” name=GENERATOR}{/HEAD}
: {BODY bgColor=#00e000 background=followup_files/kick4_x.jpe}
: {CENTER}
: {H1}Post a new topic{/H1}{/CENTER}
: {P}{A name=postfp}Post a New Topic{/A}
: {P}
: {FORM action=http://www.martial-arts-network.com/cgi-bin/forum.pl
: method=post}{INPUT type=hidden value=new name=topic}
: {INPUT type=hidden value="" name=name}
: {INPUT
: type=hidden value=“December 14, 19100 at 17:39:47” name=origdate} Name: {INPUT
: size=50 name=name}
: {BR}E-Mail: {INPUT size=50 name=email}
: {P}Subject: {INPUT size=50 name=subject}
: {P}Comments:{BR}{TEXTAREA name=body rows=10 cols=50}
: {/TEXTAREA}
: {P}Optional Link URL: {INPUT size=50 name=url}{BR}Link Title: {INPUT size=48
: name=url_title}{BR}{INPUT type=submit value=“Submit Follow Up”} {INPUT type=reset value=Reset}
: {P}
: {/CENTER}{/FORM}{/BODY}{/HTML}
I don’t know what to do. I cut and pasted his post into notepad and changed the brackets, but what do I do now? I’m asking here because the site in question isn’t visited very often at the moment. Plus, I am now more curious about the solution to the problem than I am about posting on the site!