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to the Collector Forums. To access the forums, click on the hyperlink
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These Forums have several features:
Registration is required to post
messages. Registration is free. You complete the registration form and a temporary
password is emailed immediately to the e-mail address you provide. You can then sign back
on and edit your profile, including your password.
You are able to edit your own messages
after posting. Update what you said or correct a typo, for example. For the first 50
posts you make, you will be identified as a "Newbie". After 50, you will be
identified as a "Wacko". Read the "Forum on these forums" for more
information on how these terms came to be.
Forums have moderators (called
"Cruise Directors") Moderators can edit and delete messages not
appropriate to their forums.
The Collector Forums have
Administrators (Called "Saints") who can add new forums delete old forums, edit
any message, and reconfigure the forums.
When you post a message, you can
choose to receive notification when a response has been posted to your message.
The forums are set up so that you can
add to another person's message, creating a 'thread' that is related. For example, a
discussion on your favorite Harbour Lights, or where the year 2001 reunion should be held.
Moderators can close threads to prevent further posting to them. When a thread reaches 50
messages, we usually close the thread and open a continuation of it in a new thread.
If your post does not pertain to an
existing message, then you should choose the "Add A Topic", rather than
"Post Reply".
There are currently 25 forums, each
with a special purpose. Please post in the appropriate forum and do NOT post the same
message in more than one forum.
When you re-visit the forums, you'll
see an indication of which forums have messages that you have not yet read. From the main
list of forums, you'll see a 'lit' lighthouse. For one of the forum directories, the
folder that contains an un-read posting will be red. These lights are turned on an off
based on a 'cookie' that is placed on your computer. The cookie tells us the date and time
you last visited the forums. This allows the system to decide which messages have been
posted since your last visit and display the lights accordingly. If you set your browser
to refuse cookies, then you will see ALL the lights lit each time you visit.
You can 'imbed' a URL of a web page
within your message like this: precede your message with [URL]
and end it with [/URL]. There should be no space between the [URL] and the http://...
of the web page you are linking to. Note the forward slash in the ending [/URL]. The
message as you type it would look like this:
[URL]http://www.myplace.com/home.htm[/URL]
You can imbed a
picture that exists on the web by using the [IMG] and [/IMG] before and after the reference to the picture's URL. Note that IMG links
MUST include the "http://" before the "www.myplace.com" . For links to
other sites you may omit the "htp://".
[IMG]http://www.myplace.com/kids.jpg[/IMG]
Similarly you
can imbed a mailto link by using [EMAIL] and [/EMAIL] before and after the email address:
[MAIL]chidester@mindspring.com[/MAIL]
Please do NOT bring
images into the forums that you did not make. If you see a picture another photographer
took that is elsewhere on the web that you want to share with other collectors, Use the
[URL] [/URL] to create a LINK to the page that image is one (not to the image). Bringing
images onto the forum pages that you did not take is a violation of copyright law.
If you have questions on
how to use features in the forums, post your questions in the 'FORUM ON THIS FORUM' board.
Messages posted here
should be appropriate to the subject of Lighthouses and Harbour Lights. All other posts
are subject to deletion.
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