World: r3wp

I generally see the approach to educate a user in place until he 
feels educated working well.

same thing for copying to clipboard too... a flashing icon or some 
kind of passive notification, rather than a popup

Is Altme ever going to support web proxies? It seems strange that 
IOS does but Altme doesn't.

Yes.

I have two altme clients open on two computers (XP & RH)  on my desk 
right now and the last  message in the "tech news"  on XP is Prkr 
from May 26, the laso on the red hat is Reichart from a few minutes 
ago. both computers are on the same university subnet with fast connections. 
I have tried the dot trick, and stopping and restarting the altme 
on xp to try and force it to pick up the more recent messages
without sucuess.

Try logging on as guest/guest, and then back as yourself....It can 
sometimes force a proper resync

Brians post caused it to resync

Weird, isn't it?

yes, not at all expected on a fast connection

mine?

yep, yours, goes to show words can have unintended side effects

Must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

Hi Reichart - when?

Don't know yet, but it is on the list.

it'sd possible to change my username?

Reichart can change it ...

Change it to what?

How do you export AltME checklist info and then IMPORT that data 
back into another world?  Is there a file format for what AltME expects 
the data to look like?

you can get this data, but you have to sort of hack it.  Go search 
your drive for info you KNOW is in your checklist.

It is pretty simple from thier.

:)

I just tried guest with a password of guest to correct the syncing 
problem.

It says guest/guest is no longer valid.


Is that just me, or what?  If not, how are new people to request 
an account? And how do I work around the sync bug?

guess guest was a security hole

guess someone changed it

It always has been a big security hole -- a guest can delete groups 
and do all sorts of damage.


But right now, there is no way for someone new to join....unless 
they email an existing member and ask for details.

i think the powers that be should reset it to guest/guest. some guest 
probably changed it by mistake.

The guest account has been removed, at least for now. The ML is up 
and running, so that's good for new folks at the moment. Yes, it 
means people will need to be "pre-approved" before they can join 
here. Not sure what to do about the sync issue Sunanda.

Security-wise: removing teh guest account is a great idea

Marketing-wise: not so sure....adds another barrier to joining the 
REBOl community.


How do people find out how to request to be pre-approved?  (One possible 
way is for rebol.net mirror t have a form that sends an email [if 
I can use the E word] to the adminstrator)

why not sync 'AltMe' accnts with rebol.org accnts.

if u want an accnt for AltMe's Rebol3 world, one needs to create 
an accnt on rebol.org?

Shared application userids  *may* be a possibility once REBOL applications 
can talk with LNS.
Not so easy to do right now.

Gregg -- resync bug.....It appears to require those afflicted to 
logon as another user (eg guest in the old days) to kick start the 
resync of their real userid.....So two ideas...either:
[1] some of us need two ids

[2] create a special userid ("resync") and some of us will need to 
know the password.

someone sent me an Urgent Alert in this world, but I cannot read 
these. so if you need to reach me, just send me a private message. 
 Thanks. (my Urgent Alerts just go off the screen...)

i think alerts also go to your private message list, with a red bg

~Tests~

The "When Sent" part gets a red background.

Hey Riechart, we need a way to feed messages automatically into AltME 
 - to allow an email feed to reach it.

How's the new version coming along?

No planning that for AltME yet.  We are planning that for Qtask though.

no == not.

I'm sure this is a stupid question, but how do you enter a return 
(newline) into an AltMe entry directly, without precomposing your 
entry in a text editor or some such?

use the pen icon

to switch between using return to control-S to send your
message (sic).

There you go, it was a stupid question afterall :)

:)

Those icons should have tooltips or some such.

Chinese doesn't need tooltips !

It would for me, as I can't read it :)

Sorry, being sarcastic.  There's a little gulf between the developers 
of Altme and the users regarding some usability issues.

Maybe the new version of Altme being worked on currrently will address 
these issues

I noticed that there is a status line in the upper left that works 
for these, but I didn't notice it until I was looking at the icons 
in the upper left. When looking at the lower icons, that status line 
was out of me field of vision, so it might as well have not existed.

replace "me" "my"