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.
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.
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!
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…
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.
~Shane (Formerly StrTrekNut)
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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. 
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?
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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['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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[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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(emphasis added)
I am intelligent, I am intelligent «sulk»
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I love it! I only wish that we could set profiles like these in alt.fan.cecil-adams.
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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.
Barbara
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.
I think I’m doing it right. I guess I’ll find out when this post shows up.
Shadowfox
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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.
nuqDaq yuch Dapol? (Where do you keep the chocolate?)
I think there is one.
I know that was an amazingly unintelligent reply but I’m testing the quoting method myself.
Pamela
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.
HyperSnark
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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