From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 08:02:46 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1684E1065670; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:02:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 801B18FC14; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:02:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl26-34.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.153.34]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id mAH82Yr3002336 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:02:40 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mAH82YSu094363; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:02:34 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id mAH82XqM094362; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:02:33 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Matthew Seaman References: <20081116160428.GD79046@valentine.liquidneon.com> <20081116195718.F26015@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <87r65a98gm.fsf@kobe.laptop> <49211D66.9030606@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:02:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: <49211D66.9030606@infracaninophile.co.uk> (Matthew Seaman's message of "Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:29:42 +0000") Message-ID: <87skpqvkyv.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-ID: mAH82Yr3002336 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.308, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.09, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@freebsd.org X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Wojciech Puchar , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Brad Davis Subject: Re: Official FreeBSD Forums X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:02:46 -0000 On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:29:42 +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> * Having five gazillion posts that say "me too", is not exactly a >> productive answer to a problem. Alas, this is often what you get >> when you gather hundreds of _very_ inexperienced people and you >> hand them a web interface to freely post short, often >> unintelligible snippets that are more suitable for Twitter than a >> FAQ page. > > There's a Thanks button feature in vBulletin that can be enabled to > help catch the 'me too' type postings. Heh, yes. It may take a while to catch on, but it's nice to have it :D >> I've been posting to forums with the mozex Firefox extension and GNU >> Emacs for more than a couple of years now. Here's how a typical ``post >> to a forum'' session looks like for me now: >> >> http://flickr.com/photos/74808312@N00/2961070181/ > > Oh, wow. That's perfect. Or it would be if it was compatible with > firefox-3.0.4 ... It is. I'm using it with Firefox 3.0.4, after installing the plugin from this page: http://mozex.mozdev.org/