Hi Chris,
> I think it's a bit troublesome for Creative to provide links to the
nabble
> interface for these lists, when sending messages through it silently
fails.
> IIRC, Dan said it's because of the email address nabble posts come
> from aren't
> registered for the lists are are thusly dropped.. is there any
possibility of
> allowing the messages through?
I'm not sure. Does anyone know what email addresses are used when nabble
posts to the list?
> On a similar note, I'm (still) seeing an alarming number of "empty"
messages
> getting posted to Creative's OpenAL forums. I'm pretty sure it's dueto
people
> habitually hitting reply, going to the bottom of the message (or staying
at
> the top :P) and adding their reply.. outside of the <div></div>s so the
> message is lost. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that must be
> incredibly frustrating to people wanting help, especially if you're not
> familiar with HTML mark-up (though it's still a bit frustrating to
> those of us)
I agree that the forum is not working well. (FYI ... you should see a rich
text editor tool bar that allows you to do simple text formatting, but this
only seems to appear when using certain browsers -- maybe IE only I'm not
sure).
> I'd seriously ask if Creative is at all open to the idea of dropping the
> forums and going back to these mailing lists, which everyone seems to
prefer
> anyway. Most of the public help I've seen given is through these
> mailing lists
> and in IRC (<plug>#openal on Freenode</plug>).
I'll remove the web forums.
Dan
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