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kerouac
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response 100 of 103:
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Mar 24 22:27 UTC 1996 |
re: #98...I probably just meant that I thought newuser should or could
be used to generate initial .cflists during creation of logins. Upgrading
picospan, I'm not sure what I meant, but it does take a long time to browse
items in a conf, and maybe it could be set up so you can browse by
keyword, so that if say there were eight items discussiong CDA in agora
you could get list them. Or if a newuser knows one person in a conf,
they could call up all the items he or she wrote. I'm sure you can do
some of this already though.
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davel
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response 101 of 103:
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Mar 24 22:35 UTC 1996 |
You *can* browse by keyword. The browse command, with a string (in quotes),
will search for that string in the item headers; the "find" command will do
the same for the item/response texts. (In both cases it ignores upper/lower
case distinctions.)
I always suspected you weren't sure what you meant, kerouac.
(Large, complicated, stupid ascii smiley face to be inserted here.)
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srw
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response 102 of 103:
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Mar 24 22:57 UTC 1996 |
When we first read your "upgrade picospan" comment, we all thought the same
thing, that you were looking for changes to the software. But when we reread
your comments in context, I at least came to feel that you were interested
primarily in updateing the way we use picospan. I think others did too,
because we did talk about this.
I would never waste my time in here if it was not relevant to the
decision-making process.
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kerouac
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response 103 of 103:
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Mar 25 00:06 UTC 1996 |
well I'm sure I meant changes in how picospan is used. Going into
individual conferences is time consuming. Is it possible, or would it be
possible, for a user who has say five confs in a .cflist that each have
four new items, to do a global browse, which would call up a list of all
the new items from all his/her confs in one concise list, on one
screen, so that the user can read or respond to them
without actually entering the conf in question, or can at they least see
who's entered the new itemsand what they are about before deciding
whether to run their .cflist.
This way users could read the new items without ever having to look at
conf login or logout screens.
The more efficient you can make the conferencing process, the quicker people
can get in and out, the more likely users are to take the time to read what's
out there. If I'm on a slow modem, or connection, I'm much more likely
to bother confing if I can avoid as many "entrance" and "exit" screens as
possible.
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