>>> Except that you can't CC anyone/anything from the >> forum. You can only CC when submitting from an email >> client (and since you can only have one email address >> as yet, those of us contributing from home and work >> are stuck...). >> >> Excellent point. You may wish to raise this issue on >> website-discuss; I >> see no good reason why posting to the forum from the >> website shouldn't >> allow you to enter a CC: in some text box? > > Agreed. I'm a little loathe to bring it up there, as I seem to remember some > mention of them having a list as long as King Kong's arm to work on, but it > can't hurt to ask.
Please do go ask... I talked about the website a little with Stephen Hahn last week when I was out there... it sounds like a big backlog of requests may give him more ammunition to get additional resources for the website so it can't hurt. Also the current website framework is really clunky so things will be easier to change in the future as they migrate away from the current framework which looks like it was designed by monkeys instead of by software engineers. :) >> If contributors are using Sun/3s with 2400 baud >> modems, 30 pages of text >> might be a problem :) but I would hope folks would >> use common sense. > > It isn't just that. I often have difficulty reading longer items in the > forums, and need to copy/paste to a word processor and print them off. > Scrolling through 30 screens can be painful. Also, don't forget that this is > an international forum; European users pay for every packet the slurp down. > There's no warning in the forum software that tells them this one post is > 5Meg. Right; anything beyond 100K is likely to be painful for some users. - Eric
