These have been mentioned before, but just happened to me again; I'll get them off my chest before the new year. if a paragraph is over a certain length, a break is inserted willy-nilly, and the last character before the break is deleted. I find this irritating; I try and keep my paragraphs short, but some ideas take a while to develop. It's really silly when several paragraphs are chopped in the last line; can you tell us how many characters per paragraph the current set-up allows? I 'forgot' a topic yesterday and got the 'server internal error, could not process your request' message again, as before the topic had in fact been forgotten when I returned to the conference

How would we go about making the [body] tag conference specific. Say we didn't want the standard link and vlink colors. Somebody must have fiddled with this -- the Mac site?

Amy, take a look at the code in the dsm confernce. We customized the conference background there and also in the apps conference.

Right, Terry, I have figured out the wallpaper, but it must be a gif, which take the background attribute of the HTML body tag, not the bgcolor, vlink or link color attributes of the tag. Still having a problem getting topic creation permission specified. How do you do that? I thought 0 and public in the config file would take care of it.

Hi guys, This is from the austentest conference. It seems that we cannot add topics through the web interface. The yapp prompt seems to work just fine. These are the messages appearing in the log in public/debug: Amy Jan 3 15:51:38 1997 Got error 13 (Permission denied) in opening /usr/bbs/confs/austentest/_2 sysop Jan 3 15:56:01 1997 Got error 13 (Permission denied) in opening /usr/bbs/confs/austentest/_2 mrobens Jan 3 16:32:58 1997 Got error 13 (Permission denied) in opening /usr/bbs/confs/austentest/_2 So, you see, even sysop can't create a topic this way. What's up?

Please disregard the question in response 5. The problem was ownership of the conference directory. All set now. Thanks. Myretta

a summary of a recent discussion in Austen help; Anna I too have been struck new' about 40 minutes ago. Was any of the hosts redecorating at the time perchance? Amy Look. Just about the time the clock reset. Anna it seems probable that it is as result of loading while there is background work going on that one is struck new; has anyone informed Dave Thaler of our conclusions? If not I'll post it in Yapp.

Amy was speculating that it is people who read all threads (and so are sometimes "caught up" on ALL topics in a conference) who are hit by "old is new". Is this true for those of you who have been affected by this problem? I don't read all threads (conspicuously, I have never ventured at all into the "drooling" thread ), and I have never beeen affected...

Amy was speculating that it is people who read all threads (and so are sometimes "caught up" on ALL topics in a conference) who are hit by "old is new". Is this true for those of you who have been affected by this problem? I don't read all threads (conspicuously, I have never ventured at all into the "drooling" thread ), and I have never beeen affected...

So maybe we could create a dummy thread and "freeze" it, so that everybody could have a topic that they haven't read -- if this would prevent the problem from happening...

So maybe we could create a dummy thread and "freeze" it, so that everybody could have a topic that they haven't read -- if this would prevent the problem from happening...

How are the topics (responses) marked as "read"? Is the mechanism the same for the web front end and the shell? I think that if we know what technically SHOULD be happening, it would help us pin down what ISN'T happening (or what is "UNHAPPENING").

]people who read all threads I'm not sure if I understand you correctly HC, but; I have marked a few threads (not topic 4 ;-) as forgoten, and don't read those. I do read all the new postings in all the unforgotten topics. Sometimes I use all since/-1, rarely anything else.

I, too, have a couple of topics "forgotten" and was still struck by the old-is-new problem and had to forget them all over again. :-( Wish that would have worked!

Another oddity; I and a few others (Amy and Johanne have posted on it) have developed a 'peter-pan' bug. A few (only a few thank heaven) topics refuse to age. They keep on coming up on the new list, despite the fact that there have been no new posts to that topic; on viewing only the topic header is shown. For me the topics are 113, 114 and 117 in Austen and 3 in Austentest. This contrasts with the old is new, which only affected the conference I was in at the time, for me (Austen).

It turned out to be due to the clock troubles and the consequent post-dated posts; they are disappearing as we catch up with them.

We have noticed that 'remember' works from the yapp prompt but not from the web interface. Is this our problem or something to be addressed in a future release?

I'm talking to Dave about the new release. Any clue, Myretta, why our readaudio server isn't responding (on an unrelated topic), I was looking at the site earlier tonight and couldn't get any of the realaudio files to play. Perhaps we could work together with Dave Thaler to upgrade the system to the latest release. It might solve the 'old is new" dilemma.

I'm afraid I'm clueless about why realaudio isn't working. Does it run as a daemon and should it, therefore, have an rc file entry. I have no docs, so I can't check. I'll be glad to discuss upgrading yapp at any time.

Myretta Robens writes: > > We have noticed that 'remember' works from the yapp prompt but not from the web interface. Is this our problem or something to be addressed in a future release? I believe this issue has been addressed already and if you upgrade to the latest release you will find that it has been fixed. Kaylene