checking to see . . .

taking an opportunity to test my HTML skills in relative quiet . .

Regarding html, we support most tags here. Except those that we place on an exclusion list. I can publish that list of tags if you like.

I'm expecting the distinguished Mr. (maddog) to come by at 11 and put out some incredible html. Welcome maddog

Hi Terry - Heather here yet?

hey hey greetings dog and all

Terry, is there any way to see who is present here?

o.k. I got ERROR: Missing ending I tag when I tried to make large red bold italicized fonts

A couple questions on hosting tools. Can hosts: * Sribble posts * Rename threads * Move threads around? What about user control? Scribbling, hiding, cross-referencing?

you can scribble posts. you can rename threads I don't think you can move threads around, you mean like change the number of topic? If you have to have this feature, we will make it happen. If we don't have it, we'll make it happen.

Terry, I don't actually know what ungodly powers the hosts need (any hosts who pass through, please leave your requests for features here.) For all new eMinders coming through, leave your site specific questions and requests here and try out all your skills.

Who should I set up as hosts here? You? maddog? Anyone want to host this conference?

well, I am kind of busy filling in for nancy right this second, as things turn out - why did everyone have to rush to Utne at the exacy stroke of 11 p.m. EST, I do not know - but sure, Terry Is anyone here who is also at Utne in a second browser (bowser) like me? also, I am still wondering why the font tags are not working for me - I see those fonts that dave and you posted - instruction?

exacy? you can tell I've been awake for like 40 hours straight hahahaha

I'm in three bowsers, one for utne, one for minds and I'm here via my bowser and via telnet.

well, as I said, my computer is an abacus, so... fell off the net two or three times during all that activity a divot for tara:

Fell off the net? You're resilient though. You keep bouncing back.

Sorry I didn't make it to this thread earlier. I find this exploration rivetting (but without the noise). But the wood screw-- just a nice extra touch. We have had some good discussions of TaraTwain's trademark Divots of Desire. I kept dispelling the romantic aura by asserting, They're only Yen signs, f'r'evvins sake! Those with handyperson background said they are wood screws. Tarabella would have none of it. Well, a couple of days ago I e'd her and sent her some � (Alt+numeric 0165) signs. Our delightful Wasp Lady replied, quoting and remarking out parts of my message. Lo and behold, my divot/wood screw characters had been translated to the word for the sign, as her mail client (?) understood it. Said "yen yen yen" in the reply. Well, we do have to get our poet laureate over here. Meanwhile, perhaps we can find the CyberTherapist to explain why desire, yen and screw symbols seem interchangeable. There must be an extremely obscure reason, at which I could not even guess.

Who is the aforementioned poet laureate?

Why, that would be TaraTwain, aka Tarabella, aka The Wasp Lady, who likes to center her poetic posts and decorate them with divots of desire. Dear me, Terry, don't you got no culture? We need to get all the pomes done by Tara and Ginny and the dog and a few others, at EM (Commons, Flash) and produce an anthology, a chubby volume of verse.

Tara and GinnyGal. Cool.

SCURRY SCURRY SCRATCH SCRATCH OH LOOK LIGHT HI IM PACKRAT I FOLOWED THE LOUD FOOT PRINTS HERE HOPE U DONT MIND PLUG HOWARD

gosh (drymartini) yer makin' me blush okay here's the real story behind the divots of desire really this is the authorized version dry's version is one and its true but mine is a story of love and lust and desire and bullets yes, divots were mere bullets in the beginning i have a mac and had the habit of using bullets for dividers instead of periods � a bullet is option-8 � so one day i was wandering around bulleting and fattymoon asked me what those strange things were i thought he was kidding i figured anybody knew what a bullet was... so i rather flippantly replied that they were "Divots of Desire" Of course, what he saw was a yen sign i saw a bullet people kept asking me what they were so i kept replying that they were divots finally fatty asked me to describe what i saw so i said it looked like a centered dot and he said it looked like a wood screw then glenb figured out that the interfaces translated them differently sometime around february something happened and all my divots were turned into wood screws suddenly i could see what everyone else could see all along and i hated them but eventually i sort of came to like them i still like bullets but i used screws for divots if that makes sense and dry really likes my divots...you may call them yen signs if you so desire but to me they are always divots of desire. tarat aka sometimes tarabella

Howdy, gang. Terry, is Yapp a free to developers software?

Also, my mailto from "soup" goes to soup@spring.com How would I get that mail? And can it be changed to my own email address?

You can change your mailto: address or you can set up a .forward file to mail it to your other address. And Yapp 1.3 is freeware but the version we use with the web interface is buyware. And welcome Tom!