| Registering
Registration may be required if you plan to post new topics or reply to existing topics
(depending on the particular forum you are using). Registration is free, and you are not
required to post your real name. You are required to post your actual email address,
however.
Using HTML
You may be able to use HTML in your posts on for each forum. Every time you
post a new note, you will be told whether r HTML is enabled for that particular forum. If
HTML is on, you may use any HTML tags, but please be very careful that you use proper HTML
syntax. If you do not, your moderator or administrator may have to edit your post.
Moderators
Moderators control individual forums. They can edit, delete, or prune any posts in their
forums. If you have a question about a particular forum, you should direct it to your
forum moderator.
Changing
Your Profile
You may easily change any info stored in your registration profile, using the
"profile" link located near the top of each page. Simply identify yourself by
typing your username and password and all of your profile information will appear on
screen. You may change any items, except your username.
Editing
Your Posts
You may edit or delete your own posts at any time. Just go to the topic where the post to
be edited is located and you will see an edit icon on the line that begins "posted
on..." Click on this icon to edit or delete the post. No one else can edit your post,
except for the forum moderator or the bulletin board administrator. A note is generated at
the bottom of each post that is edited so that every one knows when a post has been
edited. Note that if your post was the start of a new topic, deleting your post will
result in the removal of the entire topic (all replies after your topic will also be
deleted).
Attaching
Files
For security reasons, you may not attach files to any posts. You may cut and paste text
into your post, however, or use HTML (if enabled) to provide hyperlinks to outside
documents.
Searching
For Specific Posts
You may search for specific posts based on a word or words found in the posts, user name,
date, and particular forum(s). Just click on the "search" link at the top of
most pages. Note: announcements are not included in the search returns.
Announcements
Announcements are one-way communications from either a forum moderator or a Forum
administrator. No one may post replies to these announcements. If you want to talk about
specific announcements, you will have to create a new topic in the appropriate forum.
Censoring
Posts
The bulletin board administrators have the power to censor certain words that may be
posted. This censoring is not an exact science, however, so certain words may be censored
out of context. Please realize that the censoring, if any censoring is being performed, is
being done by a computer based on the words that are being screened. Words that are
censored are replaced with asterisks.
Lost User Name and/or Password
Retrieving your username and password is simple, assuming that email features are turned
on for this bulletin board. All of the pages that require you to identify yourself with
your username and password carry a "lost password" link that you can use to have
your username and password emailed instantly to your email address of record.
Email
Notification
If you create a new topic, you have the option of receiving an email notification every
time someone posts a reply to your topic. Just check the email notification box on the
"New Topic" forum when you create your new topic, if you want to use this
feature.
What is the Daily Active Topic List?
When you visit this bulletin board, you will see a link at the top of the list of forums
called "Daily Active Topic List". Clicking on this will provide you with a list
of topics in all open (non private) forums that have been posted to that day.
Can
I search private forums?
Currently, only administrators and moderators can search through private forums. We do
plan to support seaching of private forums for other authorized users in the future.
What
are archives?
Archives are read-only areas that contain topics that were previously posted to one of our
forums. You may not add a reply to a topic that is in an archive. Topics in an archive may
have been completely removed from the original forum where they were started, or they may
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