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To: John Busby who wrote (72)	11/20/1999 9:39:00 PM
From: bucko	Respond to of 3372

BB- We've corresponded be4. How are we coming with a clubhouse environment on the beta site. I don't know about all of them, but the datarace clubhouse is a real home to some goodly number of us. We'd be lost without it. bucko

To: John Busby who wrote (72)	11/20/1999 11:27:00 PM
From: Sarkie	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3372

John, Why is it that someone can register with SI, cannot post messages to threads, yet is able to send a PM to a member? Sending PM's should be a privilege of paid membership only, as well as viewing profile information of members. Is there a reasoning behind this that I don't understand? ~Sarkie

To: John Busby who wrote (72)	11/20/1999 11:43:00 PM
From: John Biddle	Respond to of 3372

The "View Next 10 Messages" option is a significant improvement over viewing only one at a time. There is the known problem of inaccuracy with keeping up with exactly which posts one has viewed, but I know you're working on that, so I'll let it be <g>. What I'd like to see is an expansion of the 10 at a time approach to N at a time. I still usually use BrowseMaster on Classic because of this. I want to use the new SI, but BrowseMaster is so seductive. Anyway, the benefits of "next 100" or "next 500" or "all remaining" are significant, and I don't see any downside to your adding it. You could add an option for members to set their own size for posts at a time, so if someone wanted to stay at 10 they could, while someone else who wanted bigger chunks of data at one time could get them. Not only does it save keystrokes a/o mouse clicks, it saves time since one typically only waits for the first message, the rest being there by the time one is ready for them. Another benefit is that I can read 500 messages at a time from a thread and save to a file, taking it with me onto a train or plane for reading later. This is great but is much too cumbersome with only 10 at a time.

To: John Busby who wrote (72)	11/20/1999 11:53:00 PM
From: John Biddle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3372

Another improvement idea I've had, and have seen variants of on predecessor threads to this one, is to have more than one bookmarks page per member. The member would have some way to control which one was the active page, and only that page would be updated. I like to keep many threads bookmarked, but only view a small number on a regular basis. If I had two bookmark pages, I would keep my 10 active threads on one page, and my 40 inactive threads on another. This would greatly speed up the loading of my bookmarks page. It might also increase my willingness to keep more infrequently viewed threads bookmarked, since they would no longer slow down my regular use of SI. I have dropped many threads from being bookmarked for this very reason, and I suspect many others have as well. As far as the other ideas on enhancing the bookmarks page, i.e., adding the ability to delete many at once, the need might be mitigated with the above suggestion. As for adding notes capability, that's a good idea.

To: John Busby who wrote (72)	11/21/1999 7:06:00 PM
From: Ira Player	Respond to of 3372

You already check to determine if the person viewing is the person that owns the post. If they own it, you tell them how long they have to edit the post. How about, if they don't own it you grab the delayed quote until the 15 minute edit time limit is over. When the owner (poster) can no longer edit it and the quote becomes fixed, it is within minutes of the time the poster originally posted. Of course, that gives them time to change the wording as they go... Ira