Re: is this board alive?

"David Dean" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>    I see now that these are available in the spamcop forums. I guess it
> shows you that I haven't logged in for quite some time. The only
> remaining problem with this feature is that locked and moved topics do
> not clearly indicate whether or not there are new messages in them.

OK, after my last post here, checked, and yes, it appears you have
to be logged in to see the changes in the Read/Unread icons.

The "locked" / closed items ... technically, shouldn't normally
have 'new' content (although Admin/Moderators 'can' add
more posts to them .. (just not normally done) .. so once
read, they should stay 'read' ...

"Moved" for the most part is a temporary thing ... I'll usually
wait until the original poster adds something to the new
location .. at that point, the "Moved" link gets whacked ..
admit that this is a "when I see it" thing .. Point being that
if the "Moved" item was of interest, one would have followed /
seen the current Topic/Discussion when hitting that other Forum,
either following the link or manually navigation.  Coming back
a while later, generally, you won't see the "Moved" item in
the Topic list ...

The only specific item that this may be a real issue with is
the Pinned pointers to the FAQ, but (as stated previously
here) I've made some changes to the layout and placed
those links at the top of the displayed page ... when I update
the Forum FAQ, it's just an edit of the existing document,
so none of the pointers actually change data ...but I also
have a "last updated" line at the top of that entry that
goes along with the "never complete, always be updated"
description .... (but, "we" all have been surprised at the
changes made to the www.spamcop.net FAQ with no
announcement <g>)

Again, I'm not trying to force/drag/push anyone 'over there'
just doing what I can to make sure that folks do get some
support .. and as far as the SpamCop e-mail accounts go,
that's the place at the moment .. not my doing ... I don't
even have one, just a free-report only type of account