h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I meant to use an smiley there!

EGMel, all those questions and more are why the announcement is inaccurate.

1. PMs are associated with a U-number. So they exist on the site on which that U-number first registered - just like the journal and PS article. That means wherever you started posting you will end up on the U-number site.

2. PMs are easily visible to the recipient and posting U-number when looking via ican.

3. If you know where to look, PMs are visible to the recipient on the right dna site forum but not to the poster (unless this is the same account!).

4. PMs are not normally visible to others either on ican or the appropriate dna site.

5. Once subscribed (by various means), a PM is visible on the conversation list of recipient and sender *but* only when logged in as those accounts (still excluding staff, moderators and software accidents from this).

6. Since the staff/moderators can look these messages are not really private at all. If they were a product they would be breaking the trade descriptions act. For real privacy try PGP encryption on email.

I think we guessed that much!

I quite like the idea of winding up my MP, I might ask him why he came to a meeting when we were at secondry school nearly 10 years ago and proceded to beat about the bush, not answer questions directly and blame it all on the other parties... Hang on, that's just politics isn't it

It wont be long until the school children are voters though and maybe they'll be wishing they hadn't tried to encorage them to vote.

*mumble mumble top up fees mumble mumble*

Mel

SEF - I don't really need anything that private at the moment but if I do I shall probably not use the internet for it

Mel

Does MP stand for Mary Poppins?

"Does MP stand for Mary Poppins?"

Only if you want it to!
MP = Member of Parliament in the UK
MP = MorePosts on dna/h2g2, ie a conversation list of a U-number

mp means my problems

I really *do* want MP to stand for Mary Poppins.
Because she's practically perfect in every way.

Not sure I'll be using this much as I'm far too apathetic to go around campaigning and sending pap to the waste of space that is my MP. Probably won't use the private message feature either, I have nothing to hide.

croz you saying that folk who use private messaging are hidding stuff?

I have nothing to hide.

Well, almost nothing....

Er, only 3 or 4 things...no, better make that 5, or even 6
(I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition on yhis )

I'm just saying I'd rather have anything I say available to all just in case there's anything useful or worthy of comment from others

Hi all,

If you'd like to see a list and description of all of the current DNA communities please take a look at this page:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/hub/Communities

If you'd like to stay informed of all DNA project announcements (rather than announcements specifically relating to h2g2), then you should subscribe to the Hub DNA Announcements page http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/hub/Announcements. When you have subscribed to the page, whenever anything is new on DNA is announced it will pop up on your h2g2 Personal Space.

Peta http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/hub/U24

Peta,

That subscribe link on the hub announcements page kept coming up with an error

'This Page Cannot Be Displayed'

The error might be:
1. The usual BBC/dna server problems.
2. That you haven't signed up to the hub.

more than likely 1 then. i assume SSO means i am signed to all DNA sites and that includes DNA hub doesn't it?

I can, and I do

i can you can lets all do the can can

Unfortunately SSO is another misnomer. Whereas being registered and signed on (logged in) used to mean you could post on all dna sites, with SSO you now have to partially sign/register again with each and every dna site you want to use. Only after that you will be back to being able to post on them. As pointed out in a bug report many weeks ago, the error messages do not always tell you that this is what is wrong (eg when trying to undelete an old article on another site without first telling SSO you want to use the site again).

oh, then what is the point of it


i think i'll leave the other sites alone then before they fry my brain