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     | Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 03:21 pm  Christine, In recent weeks, I've noticed that your posts seem to be the only ones where the HTML tags are functioning properly. Other posts, for instance, end up reading "QUOTE" regards, dave
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| | Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 04:12 pm Dave, can you give me a URL or post a sample? Or are you talking about the e-mailed postings? I did a search for " and found only your posting above. Also checked the links in the Epinions topic where your other posting about this error is and netkat's links are working fine. Thanks!
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| | Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 05:59 pm Christine, Sorry, I was referring to the copies that I receive by being linked to various conversations in your 'Credit Reporting' topic. Maybe it's me. Maybe it's always been that way. The copies must be completely generic, right? Here are some examples of what I was describing: >"risk score." >topurl{http://www.fairisaac.com/..../Content/912} >\b... >\i... Anyway, keep up the good work. I'm a great admirer of your site, both for its content and for its functionality. The only other forum that I have similar admiration for is at http://www.dslreports.com/forums It's on a completely different topic, but the site's functionality is similar to yours. Check it out and tell me what you think. regards, dave
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| | Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 07:37 pm Ok, Dave, I got it. I just looked at MY mailed postings, and all the links I checked worked fine. I'm using Eudora 5, what are you using? This is odd, because I've read several times that Eudora screws up html. Re. http://www.dslreports.com/forums I have to say that I'm drooling not only because I'm lucky to have a land line and ONE local ISP. There isn't even cable TV! But this forum looks really cool and well organized. I have yet to find what they're using for software, going to look around a little more. Having just spent some time at a forum where each posting is on a separate page, I got to appreciate being able to just load ONE page and read, copy, or print it all. It's amazing to see all the features at http://www.dslreports.com/forums and I was impressed by the much better search function. Although there's still no date, it makes a LOT more sense. Try searching for bankruptcy here ... That "voting" feature is rather interesting too, wonder how that would work here. I read the FAQ, very interesting. I don't see the "?" in the urls and I'm going to check if that board is indexed by the search engines. Right now I'm really turned off by Discus, most of the time I can't even edit my own postings without going to admin. I've reported that bug months ago, they don't bother to fix it or respond. Anyway, greatly appreciate your bringing http://www.dslreports.com/forums to my attention, as well as the E-mail link problem, and of course appreciate your kind remarks. Thanks! And of course if anyone else has any comments on http://www.dslreports.com/forums, please post right here.
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| | Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 07:43 pm Just read your 1st posting again, regarding the E-mail URLs, and I just realized that I only get my own posts e-mailed. So if the URLs in MY posts work but not in other posters', then that would be really strange. Please let me know.
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| | Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 08:04 pm Apparently it's their own software, not YET available for sale: "If you are unhappy with the power, speed and features of your current forum package, then you will be interested in our plans to release this forum software. Please leave us your email address and we'll get in touch with news." I left my e-mail.
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| | Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 08:39 pm Christine, Damn! I was just about to post the link to their pending software release in the hope of surprising you. I should know better. I've seen how quick you are to size things up. Oh well, so you see that they are about to publish it. It was after having visited several forums where the postings were all individual, as you described, that I first found yours so refreshing. What a nuisance to have to click on link after link to follow the same thread. Whatever you do in the future, though, let me suggest that you try to maintain the function of sending actual copies of each new post to those who are linked to a given thread. DSLReports does notify you, but does not send a copy. You have to go back to the site to read each new post. Now, back to those copies. Is it possible that the facility that is automatically sending copies to linked recipients is set to send in 'Plain Text', rather than 'Rich Text'??? I'm using Outlook Express (a component of IE 5.5). I send and receive everything in 'Rich Text' (which is Microsoft-ese for HTML). Maybe this clue will help you to track the problem: When I tried to post the example of the 'topurl link' in my earlier message, I simply copied and pasted the whole HTML phrase from the e.mail that I had received from Bayhouse. When I attempted to post my message, complete with examples, I got an error message on the topurl link saying that this kind of tag requires two arguments, and you have only presented one argument (or words to that effect). In other words, this is why the link itself does not appear in my computer. The encoding that I received from Bayhouse is, apparently, incomplete. Anyway, this is why I changed all '\' to '>'; because I was prevented from posting a half-tagged HTML phrase (I guess?). regards, dave
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| | Saturday, January 27, 2001 - 05:26 am I checked the Discus E-mail setup options and can't find anything on rich or plain text. Also checked their support forum and apparently nobody else had that problem. Broken link in e-mail notification and the response was: "Almost certainly this is a problem with the e-mail client. If you're using clickable links but the client wraps them, it might not give the proper link to the browser. If the Discus-supplied link works when you copy and paste, it's a mail client problem we can't help you with." Of course nobody else posted any URLs these last few days, so why don't you redirect one of the postings with a broken link to me via e-mail and I'll see what I can do. I know you can't post Discus code without getting errors. Also, with regards to sending the entire posting in the e-mail notification: That's an option in Discus, I *could* just send the URL to the posting. The reason WHY many boards won't send the entire posting is of course to maximize "hits." That's also why many prefer the one page per posting option. The traffic increases dramatically, along with ad revenue. Of course that's not my motivation, I just want to make it convenient for readers. So please e-mail me a posting with a broken link, I'll see what I can do.
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| | Saturday, January 27, 2001 - 10:53 am Christine, Sent a direct e.mail to the address listed in your profile. regards, dave
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| | Saturday, January 27, 2001 - 11:20 am Christine, Was just reviewing your Formatting pointers. It appears that Outlook Express doesn't interpret Discus ("...formatting language developed specifically for this application..."). That's my problem. Please don't waste your time with further research; but, do let me know if you learn of a way for me to add such a facility to Outlook Express. regards, dave J
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| | Saturday, January 27, 2001 - 12:31 pm Christine, This is very peculiar. Here's how my own post came back to me: ************************************************** Was just reviewing your Formatting pointers. It appears that Outlook Express doesn't interpret Discus ("...formatting language developed specifically for this application..."). That's my problem. Please don't waste your time with further research; but, do let me know if you learn of a way for me to add such a facility to Outlook Express. regards, dave J ************************************************** As you can see, the only thing that even resembles a Discus formatting tag is the "J" (though it's completely different) where I had used J I had also used \b, \i, and \u in my post. I don't get it. Do you? regards, dave
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| | Saturday, January 27, 2001 - 01:38 pm Dave, I was looking at your e-mail attached postings earlier and noticed that it's all the Discus tags. Discus uses code just a little easier to type than html. What's really weird is that I just looked at my own postings earlier today and Eudora strips and ignores all Discus tags or Discus removes the tags before sending. Last night I looked at the Discus e-mail options and I didn't find anything with respect to "rich html" etc. One really can't expect every E-mail software to know Discus code, it's odd that I don't get the Discus code. And even weirder if Outlook treats MY postings different than others. I didn't get your posting e-mailed because I was already back to getting only copies of my own posts. So I just did a test posting and all the code was stripped "testing e-mail notification [  ]" and instead of the icon I got a ":" and "(" within those [ ] The URLs work when I post the plain URL (i.e. http://...." which Eudora properly converts to an active link. I'm going to rename this topic and move it up a level, maybe someone else has a similar problem or even solution for Outlook. It would be much easier to read the postings without all those Discus tags.
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