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I liked both your ideas. The reason for the low votes on the previous suggestion may have been that suggestion's "You really need to" as opposed to this one's "It would be nice".
Charlie
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Doh!  You're absolutely |right|. I didn't pick up on that even though I've read my original posts every time I've read somebody else's reply. Shame on me for that. 
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Chris,
You really need to sort <It would be nice if> the forums drop-down list <was sorted> alphanumerically. Makes it easier than reading each one to find the forum of interest.
Bassam
"For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you would never have considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." - Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation) ^
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Let me say one example first. MSN messenger will give a small notification when we recive new mails.
Like wise i would like to recive instant mails through CP to my mailbox. That is if somebody post a new thread on any of my favorite discussion section. Say C# or VC++.
This favorite discussion section must be customizable through My Settings link in CP.
So we can provide instant help to the users. This is not at all new to any discussion board.
Sreejith Nair
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Why dont you try desktop bob[^]...?
Multiply it by infinity and take it beyond eternity and you'll still have no idea about what I'm talking about.
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When you use <PRE> tags to wrap code blocks in messages, the stylesheet used to display the code removes all blank lines, which in many cases makes the code sample difficult to follow because you lose the "break" between natural logical process sets.
Can we fix this, please? It should only be a minor tweak to one stylesheet entry.
Example below, there should be a blank line before each comment:
int c
c = A + B
return c
Grim (aka Toby) MCDBA, MCSD, MCP+SB
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Looks fine to me (in FireFox).
If i remember right, this is an IE bug - just do like the rest of us, and throw a space in with each blank line while silently cursing Microsoft.
You're one microscopic cog
in his catastrophic plan...
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I experience frequent errors when brwsign CP ("formatted" error page, Error code seems always to be 0)
It always seems to happen when the browser tries to fetch a page with an ad, the final URL is usually http://www.codeproject.com/info/error500.asp?500;http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/fetchAd.asp or similar
Response times are good to great, occurence is sporadic - it might work half a second later, or it might fail for three clicks.
we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr.
sighist Fold With Us! || Agile Programming | doxygen
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You are not the only one, I am getting the same error.
"You're obviously a superstar." - Christian Graus about me - 12 Feb '03
"Obviously ??? You're definitely a superstar!!!" mYkel - 21 Jun '04
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Ditto
I'ts getting a bit aggravating. 
"if you vote me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" - Michael P. Butler.
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Tritto
Jon Sagara
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I've effectively disabled fetchad and am working to find out what and why the thing is playing up.
<Edit>
Cause found. It's none other than a high load issue that is causing servers to cycle. They do that in the traditional ASP way whereby the ASP process crashes and our health monitor detects and restarts. Yes, we're moving to IIS 6 as soon as we can. What we've done is turn off IP affinity in our load balancing which means when you view one page on one server things are fine, but the next page view may take you to a server that has just crashed/cycled, meaning it looks all bad. Also, when you click on a message in the forums and the ads refresh, the ad refresh itself might be served from a server that's just cycled (or about to) so it, again, looks all bad.
Normally cycling is done very quickly and servers crashing are usually rare. However, over the weekend we unplugged one of our bottlenecks and so were able to increase bandwidth and hence load. The flip side is that we've almost instantly run up against a new bottleneck, causing the problems. We've tightened up bandwidth a little in the hope that a balance will be restored.
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cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Guy A posts a message, B anwers him/her. A gets notified thru' e-mail.
C answers B, B gets notified but A doesn't.
Doesn't it make sense to notify A as well, while all of them are in the same hierarchy?
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I've got a place in the heaven beyond,
I've got dreams to live and I have love to give,
And I know it in my heart and soul,
Where we will be going,
Where we will be going,
Where we will be going. . ." chris de burg
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In some cases this would be good, but think what happens when you start a post, and then somebody else replies with something mostly unrelated, which gets lots of replies that are totally unrelated to your original post - you'd get dozens of emails all telling you about posts that don't interest you at all
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There are many more cases where this is an annoyance, than where it is helpful.
If at all, this should be a separate feature: "watch this thread: subscribe/unsubscribe". However, there are no recent threads I can remember where this would have been useful. This requires additional data to be stored, and in a busy thread, each reply could generate hundreds of e-mails.
we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr.
sighist Fold With Us! || Agile Programming | doxygen
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Then how about getting replies for only three to five roots down. This way, if a person keeps replying he skips a message, but answers the next one, he'll get as much replies as he answers plus five.
Chris could also set it up that for each message you post, you can have a checkmark that allows you to get all replies to what you've posted.
"For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you would never have considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." - Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation) ^
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Complicated and Arbitrary (from usability POV)
Wha I would consider "the one practical approach" is
a) subsribe/unsubscribe to an entire thread
b) aggregated notifications, i.e. you don't get additional notify's for the same thread until you log in again. Otherwise, this would be a build in mail server bomb.
If this feature will ever see the light of the day depends on two things:
a) Internal database structure: how expensive is to find the thread it belongs to (not just the parent)? How much additional information is required?
b) How much does e-mail traffic add to Chris' monthly Bill?
we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr.
boost your code || Fold With Us! || sighist | doxygen
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The first approach seems practical. We most certainly do not want to add to Chrisis (pardon the pun) monthly bill. The aggregated notification wouldn't work for people who are always "logged" on. I'm assuming that logged in the sense that you use cookies to save your info. Aren't all CP-ians logged on all the time?
"For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you would never have considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." - Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation) ^
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hi chris,
guess what, i have a suggestion for you 
well, here it is. when user post some lines of code on th forums, the usually copy and paste their code ; that means that they rarely remember to change the < and > around the include file names in the #include directives. it becomes tiring to post one more message to ask for the file names.
SO, i suggest you to script for a little piece of code that change the < and the > into the corresponding HTML codes when the #include keyword was encoutered just before for example, and if you like more, this could happend only into <PRE>...</PRE> tags...
tell me what you think about that...
TOXCCT >>> GEII power
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To be honest. I like the fact that you can't just copy and paste code into a forum post.
Very rarely should you need to post the entire code. You should just need to post the part that you've identified is causing your problem. Anything else is just clutter and indicates that the poster hasn't put much effort into resolving the problem.
Posters who have put effort into their question description are more likely to get answered.
Michael
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ok for copy/paste, but when you type your code, you often forget to replace the < > into their html code...
that would be helpful because, the checkbox "do not treat <'s as HMTL tags" is sometimes unusable... for example, if you want to write a colorized text, with bold/italic/underlined fonts, you cannot while the checkbox is selected...
of course, not fogetting to click on the < and > buttons would be better, but that is rarely the case of many of us.
TOXCCT >>> GEII power
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To add to what Michael said, there is an option "Do not treat <'s as HTML tags" on the post page that a user can click if the need to. Otherwise it allows users to submit HTMLful pages.
Do you want to know more?
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When you want to give me a link to a forum posting use the "Get Link" button and do NOT copy the address bar - it won't work if you've been browsing because the address bar is showing you relative to the start of the page, which will move add people add posts.
I just want to add that I agree with Michael, if people are so lazy that they just want to dump pages of source code into a post without thought then I'm really not interested. If they are thoughtful and consise then it takes very little effort to put < in the few places it is needed for to get the post readable. Heck, sometimes I produce quite a long reply and I have to put lots of the < all over the place to make it readable. But that is fine by me.
Do you want to know more?
Vogon Building and Loan advise that your planet is at risk if you do not keep up repayments on any mortgage secured upon it. Please remember that the force of gravity can go up as well as down.
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Firefox is missing the neat buttons that ie has for posting in forums.
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