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- Why are there two backtalk conferences? I know this is a question and not a suggestion, but I'm at the Alcona County Library, they don't have Telnet, an ISP is a long distance call, and it has been that kind of day. - There should be a way to display the Participants list with Backtalk, or if there is and I've missed it, it should be more obvious. - A way to spell check entries would be nice. So would a way to make full use of a local editor, but the latter could be tough to impliment. It's also more of a browser problem than a backtalk problem.
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The backtalk conferences were created to test backtalk. For a while, these were the only conferences where backtalk could be used. There are two so that I could test linking items between different conferences. That's why there are so many items linked between them. There isn't a way to display the participants list. On Grex the "part" command is really slow - you have to look in every home directory on the system for people who have the right participation file. Unlike picospan, yapp maintains a participants file for each conference, so the command is fast. Backtalk can support yapp-style participants files, but Picospan doesn't so I couldn't use them here. I could use them on other sites, and will probably implement them someday, but will likely leave them turned off on Picospan-compatible installations like Grex. Spell checking is on the Todo list. It'd work something like the "preview" command, with misspelled words displayed highlighted.
(here's a suggestion: make it possible to retitle items for the individual browser. what I mean by that is allow the user to customize item titles for themselves. e.g., let's say there's an item titled "how many Tigers does it take to win a pennant?" that drifts off into a discussion of the differences in opening sequences of the Simpsons. I think it would be neat if, say I were following the item, I could title it something like "Simpsons intros" for myself without affecting how others see the item and without bugging the person who originally entered the item to change the title. it's a similar idea to rseps and the like.)
Interesting idea. I've put it on my list of interesting ideas. Check back in a few years.
I have a feature request. I use abalone (very nice, very pretty, BTW),
but I have one gripe. When you see new responses in the item, it lists
the responses with links in the lower left hand corner, split up into
the number of items you requested in your preferences. So far, fine and
good. However, what if I want to look at context for the last (few)
response(s)? I have to go back and view them, then come back to the
response page. My request: could the last link include the last
responses and the reply box? (sort of like x-$ in pistachio)
I, also, have a feature request. For those of us who occasionally access Grex via Backtalk from public computers with no way of clearing the cookie cache -- please provide a way of logging out so that the next person to attempt to log in won't just be put into the first person's account without authentication.
resp:web,46,13 (dated 2000) proposes a Backtalk flavor that's basically like fronttalk-in-a-browser. Since in the moments I might snatch between classes here I have browser-only terminals with no SSH or telnet clients, this would be *really* useful.
Anyone know the fix for this? Topic 9 of 393: 'Internet Explorer for Windows 95' Resp 53 of 53: MarciaH (MarciaH) Wed, May 10, 2000 (21:27) 1 lines Get rid of IE and load Netscape! Netscape and Spring love each other. I am using 4.7 Love it!!! [9/393] Respond, forget, or pass? r Type "." to exit or ":help". Enter your response: >test >. Ok to enter this response? y Got error 13 (Permission denied) in opening /home/sites/www.spring.net/paul/cf.buffer The file cf.buffer doesn't seem to exist. [9/393] Respond, forget, or pass?
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