A Conversation for Old Announcements: January - September 2011
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21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
Alex Watson [Zaphodista] Posted Mar 21, 2002
Yay!! Oh, hm, will URLs still be checked and postings still be killed if there's a broken link?
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
Geoff Taylor - Life's Liver Posted Mar 21, 2002
If the trial's over, does that mean I can put in a link to Irish-Overweight-Grannies-with-Exotic-Marital-Aids dot com?
Didn't think so. 
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
Granny Weatherwax - ACE - Hells Belle, Mother-in-Law from the Pit - Haunting near you on Saturday Posted Mar 21, 2002
Just as long as you don't link to Welsh ones 
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
MaW Posted Mar 21, 2002
* bounces around happily *
Woohoo!
* looks forward to the tools for TransVols to be in place, and wishes his German was good enough to let him help out *
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
E G Mel Posted Mar 21, 2002
Well done peeps, been waiting for this I new we could do it!
Mel 
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
parrferris Posted Mar 21, 2002
Brilliant!
So, apart from the foreign language issue, what improvements can we wring out of Auntie next? Our own piccies?
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
E G Mel Posted Mar 21, 2002
Check out the post they're apparently running competitions!
Mel
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
Linus...42, i guess that makes me the answer... Posted Mar 22, 2002
perhaps now you can spend some time and energy explaining to them how well the old moderation system worked..
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
HappyDude Posted Mar 22, 2002
As far as I am aware we still have proactive rather than reactive moderation 
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
Linus...42, i guess that makes me the answer... Posted Mar 22, 2002
exactly my point.
Seems like an awful waste of time and effort to me...but what would i know
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
HappyDude Posted Mar 22, 2002
but then its not the old moderation system but the current one your talking about...
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
MaW Posted Mar 22, 2002
Well, yes, it is, and that's could be the crux of the argument to drop the whole business. I mean, we have a lot better capability for reactive moderation than we did before after all - we didn't have the Yikes!/Linda buttons in the pre-BBC days. Those really should be all we need, but we just have to prove that somehow.
In the mean time, though, I hope Jim and his team get the chance to extend the moderation tools for TransVols, and the server resources are provided for uploading our own pictures - that would be just great!!!!
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | Posted Mar 22, 2002
TransVols sounds very dangerous....
dangerous....
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
E G Mel Posted Mar 22, 2002
Getting other languages back up and running would be a really cool thing, it might mean we could get back some of the international researchers lost after Rupert.
Mel
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 22, 2002
Once languages and pictures are reinstated, it might just be worth a mailshot of all researchers who haven't been on in, say six months, just to let them know...?
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- 41: Alex Watson [Zaphodista] (Mar 21, 2002)
- 42: Hati (Mar 21, 2002)
- 43: Geoff Taylor - Life's Liver (Mar 21, 2002)
- 44: Granny Weatherwax - ACE - Hells Belle, Mother-in-Law from the Pit - Haunting near you on Saturday (Mar 21, 2002)
- 45: MaW (Mar 21, 2002)
- 46: Titania (gone for lunch) (Mar 21, 2002)
- 47: E G Mel (Mar 21, 2002)
- 48: parrferris (Mar 21, 2002)
- 49: E G Mel (Mar 21, 2002)
- 50: tom (Mar 21, 2002)
- 51: HappyDude (Mar 22, 2002)
- 52: Linus...42, i guess that makes me the answer... (Mar 22, 2002)
- 53: HappyDude (Mar 22, 2002)
- 54: Linus...42, i guess that makes me the answer... (Mar 22, 2002)
- 55: HappyDude (Mar 22, 2002)
- 56: MaW (Mar 22, 2002)
- 57: pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | (Mar 22, 2002)
- 58: MaW (Mar 22, 2002)
- 59: E G Mel (Mar 22, 2002)
- 60: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Mar 22, 2002)
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