Eric Lowe wrote: >>>> 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. :)
It looks like Stephen will look into it for us. :-) I won't ask where the website/forum software originally came from. It would be hard to comment without (intentionally or unintentionally) insulting somebody or their dog. Suffice to say that it sounds like it is fairly restrictive. >>> 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. > > If contributors are using Sun/3s with 2400 baud > > Right; anything beyond 100K is likely to be painful for some users. > > - Eric Exactly. :-) Rainer
