Sure, that's a neat way to keep folks captive on your site. Otherise, they click away to never return.

No kidding, Cher!

Katy, the first of Roger's photographs are in my public_html directory here: /~amy/Pempix*.jpg Just got more today. When you are ready for them let me know and I will either email them or put them up as with the first batch. Amy

"Anybody know much about Java?" Well, my sister is writing a book about it... "Jumping JavaScript" book is more universal: it's for Mac, Windows 95, UNIX. Not sure how much she is up for being used as a resource, though. I seldom ask her, because I can never understand her answers, anyway [grin] (THat is a reflection on my lanck of wherewithal to understand it, not her explanations)

I've read through most of the responses thus far, and though I'm far too much of a novice to offer any skills in Unix, Perl, or even HTML, I *do* have a battery of graphics applications and viewers including Photomagic, Paint Shop Pro, KeyView and Pagemaker5. If any of these are of use to you or you want graphics processed, sized and e-mailed back, just let me have the file and the spec and I'd be glad to do it. Sorry I can't offer more, but what I can do I'll be only to ready to do.

WE could use yoru critdal faculties on our http://www.childrenstory.com website which is a supporint project here.

I went over to austen.net and made sure that the dedicated austen.com domain and the golftravel.net domains were set up on the NT Server. I had to resubmit the change of ip address to the Internic. So look for these domains to start resolving correctly early next week. Until the names resolve, Amy will be able to ftp website content to http://207.113.199.71 or http://www.austen.com when the Internic puts out the new name golftravel.net is 207.113.199.71

barton:~ whois bastrop.net Bastrop Internet Services (BASTROP2-DOM) Rt 1 Box 564 Cedar Creek, TX 78612 USA Domain Name: BASTROP.NET Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact, Billing Contact: Holman, Richard S (RSH13) Administrator@BASTROP.NET (512) 303-7268 Record last updated on 19-Dec-96. Record created on 15-Aug-96. Domain servers in listed order: DNS.BASTROP.NET 207.113.199.10 DNS2.BASTROP.NET 207.113.199.70 The InterNIC Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet Information (Networks, ASN's, Domains, and POC's). Please use the whois server at nic.ddn.mil for MILNET Information. barton:~ whois austen.com Jane Austen Conference on the Spring (AUSTEN-DOM) Rt 2 Box 56R Cedar Creek, TX 78612 USA Domain Name: AUSTEN.COM Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact, Billing Contact: Walhus, Paul (PW30) terry@SPRING.COM 512/310-9903x1044 Record last updated on 01-Dec-96. Record created on 24-Nov-96. Domain servers in listed order: NS1.CRL.COM 165.113.1.36 NS2.CRL.COM 165.113.1.37 The InterNIC Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet Information (Networks, ASN's, Domains, and POC's). Please use the whois server at nic.ddn.mil for MILNET Information. barton:~ whois golftravel.net Golf Travel (GOLFTRAVEL2-DOM) 940 Camille Ln Alamo, CA 94507 USA Domain Name: GOLFTRAVEL.NET Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Walhus, Paul (PW30) terry@SPRING.COM 512/310-9903x1044 Record last updated on 06-Dec-96. Record created on 09-Sep-96. Domain servers in listed order: DNS1.SPRING.COM 208.199.212.2 DNS2.SPRING.COM 208.199.212.3 The InterNIC Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet Information (Networks, ASN's, Domains, and POC's). Please use the whois server at nic.ddn.mil for MILNET Information. barton:~

Terry, you up? Come on over to Kaff's drawing room.

Terry, you up? Come on over to Kaff's drawing room.

OK.

Would anybody be up for taking on the job of working with me to collapse some of these topics? Now that we have a clue how to edit topic files, it's time to start doing some clean up here. No experience required. We will start slow and learn as we go.

May I be of assistance. Will have to learn from scratch.

Great! Love to work with you. Lets set up a time to talk in the Solicitor's office tomorrow. I have a deadline today that I am busy procrastinating for. When is usually a good time for you, Johanne?

Between 10 and 3 eastern tomorrow exceptionnaly.

Okay, how about 1 eastern?

It's a date, at Pemberley?

Fri at 1 then we have revised. Right?

Okydoky

Amy -- I think If we do anything that would cause messages in a topic to be renumbered, it would foul things up elsewhere in the system (for those people who haven't suffered all is new, that is...)

Messages to be renumbered... trouble __ True. But we have to do something. People are afraid to come here, it looks so intimidating. I hear it more and more every day. I may start by just freezing some topics that have not been posted to in a while.

Messages to be renumbered... trouble __ True. But we have to do something. People are afraid to come here, it looks so intimidating. I hear it more and more every day. I may start by just freezing some topics that have not been posted to in a while.

Messages to be renumbered... trouble __ True. But we have to do something. People are afraid to come here, it looks so intimidating. I hear it more and more every day. I may start by just freezing some topics that have not been posted to in a while.

Messages to be renumbered... trouble __ True. But we have to do something. People are afraid to come here, it looks so intimidating. I hear it more and more every day. I may start by just freezing some topics that have not been posted to in a while.

Wow! a quadruple hiccup!

]I may start by just freezing some topics that have not been posted to in a while. the other group that could be safely deleted is those topics that alert people to an upcoming event that has now passed, and has not generated any discussion since; mostly alerts for cable tv showing of various movies. Alternatively maybe they could be moved into a new forum Austen Archives (or similar) for the truly keen. (having just paged through all the topics as a recent victim of 'old is new')

Amy - It occurs to me that when we switch to austin.com we have a real opportunity to control the chaos. We could decide on specific topics beforehand and then limit topic creation. Rather than everyone being allowed to create a topic, we could have a "Topic Suggestion" topic, which would keep the number of topics to a minimum. When are we looking at going live with austin.com?

I am not sure we will move this part, Kaff. The austen.com planning has been stalled in favor of working out some of the basic sysadmin issues, but we can begin to move forward now, I think.

Well, then - How about deciding which existing topics to keep and then archiving and deleting the rest? I think that over 100 topics is definately over the top. It seems to me that we could have a couple of dozen topics which would not be nearly as intimidating as coming in for the first time and seeing hundreds of them.

Agreed. 100%. We are way overdue for this.

One good way to consolidate is to copy and paste the contents of an entire topic in a single response of another topic and then delete the topic you copied and pasted from. That way no one gets upset about someone else deleting their words. I call this "transplanting".

To start with, we have two Nostromo topics at the moment.

" Response 125 of 133: Ann (Ann) * Thu, Jan 9, 1997 (20:50) * 1 lines Wow! a quadruple hiccup!' And it hasn't even happened yet! (1/9/97)

] Amy - It occurs to me that when we switch to austin.com we have a real ] opportunity to control the chaos. We could decide on specific topics ] beforehand and then limit topic creation. Rather than everyone being ] allowed to create a topic, we could have a "Topic Suggestion" topic, ] which would keep the number of topics to a minimum. But this is entirely contrary to the original spirit and conception of the BBS. I would go for moving/retiring topics either to an archive (if they have died a natural death), or to their own conference areas (if they have grown overpoweringly large and need to be clustered/broken down/whatever. For example, there could be an entirely separate conference for the topics containing our own writings/rewirtings/sequels/prequels/letters to and from fictitious characters.

One good way to consolidate is to copy and paste the contents of an entire topic in a single response of another topic and then delete the topic you copied and pasted from. That way no one gets upset about someone else deleting their words. I call this "transplanting". Actually, this is a bad way for anyone trying to do a search who gets a hit in a huge undifferentiated transplant. Ideally it should be transplanted response by response - do we know (or can we discover) whether there is an easy way to "automate" something like this - a script or something that would in effect move the topic in tact, but re-number the postings to fit into the number range of the

Just my two cents but I think it would be very sad if we limited the new topic generation. I agree with Joan hat it would change the spirit. Could we solve the problem by setting up some guidelines so we are more organized about creating topics? Try and stop duplicates from happening. I know this will not solve all the issues but it may help. Mich

Joan -- the date problem was partly my fault... The clock was set to a wacko time, about 9hrs fast, and I reset the hour and minute to the correct time without paying any attention to the date at all, so it ended up exactly 24hrs fast!

so it ended up exactly 24hrs fast! The date is now correct.

Amy, all, do you have room for one more here? For simple stuff?

Great, Caroline. Do you do any HTML yet?

I saw that time warp Henry created and reset it to the approx correct time. It does funny things to your outgoing mail.

HC: Joan -- the date problem was partly my fault... I know Henry - it just struck me as funny - a quadruple hiccup in the future. (OK, I have a warped sense of humor.) Terry: It does funny things to your outgoing mail. Now that prospect is even funnier!