Or, is this board acting goofy. The recent posts aren't showing views and or responses, even though I myself have looked and or posted. Rob? And I still can't get the boards to defaulft to showing most recent posts first. I can get it if I click on the date header, but it's still jacked up when I return. Also I've received emails from people on the boards other than Rob, yet the return address is Rob@calfishing. I know others have had the same issue too.

Amish Ed
You Can't Catch it again if
it's Dead?

Amish Ed
You can't catch it again if it's dead!

Ditto. Seems like viewership and postings have dropped way off. (And I need that SB info! - see post above)

Did we need to re-register?

Hi Ed, let me try to answer a couple of these:

>Or, is this board acting goofy. The recent posts aren't
>showing views and or responses, even though I myself have
>looked and or posted.

I did put a new version of the forum on recently and the way that the views is updated has changed. It used to be that every time someone viewed a thread, the count for the views was updated. For some reason, the writers of the message board scripts changed it so that the number of views is only updated when a reply is made to the original post. I thought that was kind of lame myself.

As for the number of posts being incorrent, I have not seen this behavior but usually if you post a reply, then go back to the main forum page where it lists all of the threads, the number of replys should be updated. Some browsers, especially AOL, or Netscape through a proxy server, may cache the page when you first visited it and when you go back, it will just show you this cached page. You can fix this by hitting the reload or refresh button. If this is still not working, you can force the entire page to refresh by holding down the shift key and clicking reload or refresh at the same time. This is a browser thing, not a forum thing.

> And I still can't get the boards
>to defaulft to showing most recent posts first. I can get it
>if I click on the date header, but it's still jacked up when
>I return.

I'm not sure about this one, it does look like you are logged into the site, so I can't see why it's not remembering your setting. It is possible that you don't have cookies enabled for your browser. If you need help checking this, let me know. Any setting you choose on the forum is stored in a cookies.txt file (netscape) or in individual cookie files (internet explorer). If you didn't have cookies enabled, it wouldn't be able to remember your settings. If you don't have cookies enabled I don't think it would be able to remember your log in and password, a feature everyone should use to avoid having to log in every time they come to the forum.

>Also I've received emails from people on the
>boards other than Rob, yet the return address is
>Rob@calfishing. I know others have had the same issue too.

Ed are these emails that you are getting into your inbox of your regular email account? I am not sure how this could be happening really. If you can forward me one of these messages I could probably figure out what all was going on.

Another question, what browser are you using? I haven't tried the forum in older browsers so that could be causing some funky behavior as well. It works fine for me on IE 5.5 and 6.0, Netscape 4.78 for PC and for Solaris, and Netscape 6.x for PC.

Thanks Rob. I do have cookies enabled, I'm using IE 4.5, and the emails received were on my regular account. I'm getting used to reloading with the date button, but it is annoying. The site does say I'm logged in.

The emails were deleted, but I think Steve also got an email the same way. If I remember right, it was almost like an email w/in an email. Almost like the one seemingly from you was a cover letter. maybe it's some type of artifacting from emailing through the user profiles?

Amish Ed
You Can't Catch it again if
it's Dead!

Amish Ed
You can't catch it again if it's dead!

Yeah, I got one of those too. It was an email from your (rob) address, but it was signed "Howard" and it was inviting me on an albacore trip, so it probably wasn't from you... Ed's right, it's like you're forwarding somebody's email to me (that's what I thought at first) except there's not fwd: or any other email addresses or anything, just from rob@calfishing.com. Kinda weird. Obviously it's from the email feature on the board cause in the new version it emails from the boards rather than going to an email window in hotmail or whatever (I don't know if the old version did that, but that's what it does on allcoast). Check to see if you have some default set so that it has the return address as the webmaster rather than the poster.
-Brian