From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 08:05:14 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 59DFD1065675 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:05:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glyn@millingtons.org) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E02468FC0A for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:05:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glyn@millingtons.org) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,617,1220223600"; d="scan'208";a="47835766" Received: from unknown (HELO glynthebearded.millingtons.org) ([82.152.120.109]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 17 Nov 2008 08:05:11 +0000 Received: by glynthebearded.millingtons.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E2EA65D89; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:03:30 +0000 (GMT) To: Matthew Seaman References: <20081116160428.GD79046@valentine.liquidneon.com> <20081116195718.F26015@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <87r65a98gm.fsf@kobe.laptop> <49211D66.9030606@infracaninophile.co.uk> Organization: Central Church, Torquay, U.K. X-Now-Playing: There's a deathly hush in the close tonight! X-Liturgical-Date: Memorial: Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, religious, A.D. 2008 From: Glyn Millington Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:03:30 +0000 In-Reply-To: <49211D66.9030606@infracaninophile.co.uk> (Matthew Seaman's message of "Mon\, 17 Nov 2008 07\:29\:42 +0000") Message-ID: <86bpwerd7x.fsf@nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , 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 Reply-To: glyn@millingtons.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:05:14 -0000 Matthew Seaman writes: > 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. > >> 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 ... Well, yes, but "Its All Text" does the same trick for text boxes and it is compatible. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 Wouldn't be without it! atb Glyn