Re: [AGA-mcm] Who's doing all that posting

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Karen Randall wrote:

> > I read the sucker just like I read my e-mail, asking the board to show all 
> > new posts since my last visit.
>
> I'll have to figure out how to do that... I HATE all the back-and-forthing 
> you have to do on forums.

I click on the upper-right-corner "View posts since last visit".  This 
gives me a screen of various post indexes.  I click on the first one with 
the arrow pointing to the green thing.  Then pray that it actually goes to 
the new posts (which can be identified by a similar little green thing 
next to them in the thread).  When I'm done with that thread, I hit back 
on the browser and go to the next one.  If I reply to the post, I end up 
going back to the top by clicking on the big  F O R U M  graphic and "View 
posts since last visit" again (which magically now has the ones I have 
read showing sans-green thing).

The thing I've found I must watch out for is that once I go to the forum, 
I have to read all the new posts, or else the next time I log in (usually 
from a different computer), it doesn't bother pointing them out. I really 
wish I had a "show me all the posts I haven't read at all...whether or not 
it was my last visit").  That's probably a CPU-costly feature, but then 
again we have a costly CPU.

>  I also miss spell check.<g>

There is an attachment that will go to a 3rd party website to spellcheck 
your post, but that starts to get into the whole advertising thing.  I 
should check to see if someone's written an ispell attachment.


> BTW, I was thinking of talking to the NEAPS folks to see if they would be 
> interested in joining AGA in a little friendly Nano tank competition, live at 
> NEC.  Any views for or agin' ?

That could be quite fun, and a warm-up for the Iron Aquascaper.  And since 
there'll be a camera crew, it might be good material for an exclusive 
online video...

  - Erik

PS: Michael, I mailed your DVD this morning.  It's been sitting in the 
pile for the last five days or so waiting for the ribbon mailing trip.

--
Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com
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