New bbs functionality - Need help testing

Post by **Spike** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 8:08 pm

Comes through for me just fine *snicker* Wonder whats up with Yahoo!

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Opps, you said you wanted it tested, not broke. I wonder how the smiley face with come through?

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Post by **Spike** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 8:10 pm

Yeah Bill that seems to be the case. However, it only seems to be the case for Yahoo! generated emails ...

Dan A · Post by **Dan A** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:13 pm

Spike,
I already balong to the Yahoo group and, like one of the other posts' , I do not like to put up with the advertisments. This forum is good in that you do not have the extra hassle of wading thru the adds. I don't think you should change it.
Dan

bmurrish · Post by **bmurrish** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:27 pm

Dan, I am not sure what you are talking about as far as advertisements. The only thing even remotely possible to an advertisement on the site is when I respond via email and then yahoo puts a little blurb under my signature.

Post by **Spike** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:35 pm

I completely agree Dan. Advertising is something that I want to avoid at all costs. Id rather solicit from the users before I ever accepted advertising. We are a very long way from needing either so I wouldnt worry about it. The only thing that we were talking about is that Yahoo puts a textual blurb at the bottom of their emails when you use a free yahoo account to send an email.

In the testing of the new bbs software, when Bill was posting to the board using his email account, that little blurb was included down in the bottom by his signature.

I definately have no intention of accepting advertising

I don't want any type of political pressures here other than that of promoting the building and flying of RV aircraft

-- John

Post by **Spike** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:45 pm

Reply using Thunderbird and only keeping the response itself ....

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A ton of garbage comes through if you forget to remove the original email

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Post by **Spike** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:58 pm

I have a theory on this ..... Testing one, sent as HTML, should have no header issue....

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I wonder why it comes through as a quote when you reply to your own email?

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Post by **Spike** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 12:00 am

Sent this one in plain text .....

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> I wonder why it comes through as a quote when you reply to your own
> email?
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Post by **Spike** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 12:01 am

Sent this one encoded in both ....

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I wonder why it comes through as a quote when you reply to your own email?

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Post by **Spike** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 12:19 am

Ok, seems that this problem stems from Thunderbird. Looks like it doesnt
know how to handle the style sheet information embedded in the HTML when
responding to a post. That will force Thunderbird users to respond in
plain text.

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> Sent this one encoded in both ....
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captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:24 am

OK Spike,

This one is from t-bird, in text format...

But ahhhh, I thought we were going to try it from my AOL addy? How do I
change the parameters so that it doesn't come to my Adelphia account?

Can ya hook me up?

We can try it the other way?

CJ

RB Lists: The Hangar wrote:

>Ok, seems that this problem stems from Thunderbird. Looks like it doesnt
>know how to handle the style sheet information embedded in the HTML when
>responding to a post. That will force Thunderbird users to respond in
>plain text.
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Post by **Spike** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 9:45 am

CG, Change your email address in your profile. I believe that AOL is the
last big email client to try before I open this up..

Thanx buddy

-- John

RB Lists: The Hangar wrote:

>OK Spike,
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>This one is from t-bird, in text format...
>
>But ahhhh, I thought we were going to try it from my AOL addy? How do I
>change the parameters so that it doesn't come to my Adelphia account?
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>Can ya hook me up?
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>We can try it the other way?
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captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 10:20 am

Hahaha, changed the address and it wouldn't let me in!

That works!!!

CJ

I will try it from aol (internet for idiots) now...

Post by **Spike** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:03 am

John I did get your last message before the site dropped and am working on that.

Post by **Spike** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:05 am

New "From" Field.

arffguy · Post by **arffguy** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:02 pm

I am not computer illiterate but:

What benefit does this new BBS function provide over what you have provided now?

What big brick upside the head am I missing here?

Post by **Spike** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:26 pm

You are not necessarily missing a big brick Mikey. This new functionality might not be desirable to you at all. Here is a run down in case you are not familiar with what we can do now.

This software, for all intents and purposes, now integrates an email based list serve to the website. Think of it as Matronics. Whenever a user posts something, an email goes out to all of the users on the list server that is subscribed to that forum. They can then use email to respond which will then get added to the posts and sent out to the other list serve users. They will also have the ability to start threads.

How is this different than what a normal yahoo group or list serve does? Well, for all email clients that support HMTL (so far the only one that hasn't done this well is Thunderbird) the email users will see exactly the same thing that the web users will. That is to say they will be able to see the quote functions, smilies, and more importantly, they will be able to see the images and graphics that get posted. So for instance, user A posts a picture of a rudder part and asks a question, now the email list users will also be able to see that picture in their email and then respond to it. Email users will also be able to use bb code when they post.

Now for a person that likes the web interface and enjoys using their browser, they very likely will not use this functionality. However, there are a fair amount of RV'ers that only want the email list serve type functionality because its operationally easier for them to make use of. Adding this now allows both groups to effectively interact on a single system, that should also allow the centralization of archives as participation increases. Think of it as (IMHO) a better way to communicate.

Does that make a little more sense? If your confused on something let me know, I'd be glad to explain more. Who knows, this might not be used at all and it might be that nobody cares. I am personally excited though about the possibilities that this opens up to the community as far as making our communication and information sharing more effective.

I hope to be opening it up today or tonight if you are interested in taking it out for a test drive.

-- John

I am not computer illiterate but:

What benefit does this new BBS function provide over what you have provided now?

What big brick upside the head am I missing here?

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Davepar · Post by **Davepar** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:42 pm

Spike,

I posted a fix over on the M2F web site for you to try.

Dave

Post by **Spike** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:55 pm

Thanx Dave!! I'll patch it tonight and see if it helps. I didn't know you were an RV builder! Welcome to the group

-- John

Spike,

I posted a fix over on the M2F web site for you to try.

Dave

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Post by **Spike** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:37 pm

This is sent with your php patch David. Will it work?

-- Spike

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Thanx Dave!! I'll patch it tonight and see if it helps. I didn't know you were an RV builder! Welcome to the group

-- John

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