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Am getting a message "terminated request because of suspicious input data" when I post. The nature of the message sounds like the site SW thinks I'm trying to spoof it somehow...the post which is failing contains nothing which resembles HTML or XML, so I'm not sure why. This is a test post to see if I can post otherwise to the forum.

It appears to work.

Edit: An email has been sent to Ehud containing the post that was rejected by the server.

After considering public and private complaints and suggestions from valued members of the LtU community, and after discussion between some of the site editors, we have created a new "probationary" category of site user. A user account will be placed in this category for repeated behavior that is not consistent with LtU Etiquette. Comments by these users will be reviewed by an editor before being approved for publication on the site, and any such comments that lack constructive content, or are unnecessarily inflammatory, etc. will not be approved.

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Hi, Has anyone made any forum filtering software for LtU? There's a bit more traffic lately and there are a few things I'd like to omit: posts older than a few days, posts less than a fixed size, or by poster.

I imagine a greasemonkey script (or something similar) could pull out the posts and XSLT them. If you've done anything like this, or are interested let me know

Is it just me? Or is the LtU forum usability suboptimal? When discussions grow moderately large i find it almost impossible to keep track and I generally give up reading the threads.

I don't watch the forum all they. I generally just drop by a few times a day to see what's new. Discussions tend to diverge into a few different threads, some of which are more interesting than others. Based on this I have two basic needs. I need to be able to easily see which threads have new posts in them, and I would like to browse the threads separately, like I would if it was a usenet group.

Currently I can easily see which threads have new posts, but because of the way this is implemented I have to search for the string "***" to find the new entries. In addition it's very hard to keep track of the various sub-threads. The way the threads are indented is also not very good. I appreciate the idea, but when threads get really deep readability suffers.

IMO the ideal solution would be a threaded forum that has a two-pane solution where the threads are in one pane and the currently active message are in the other. Topics should be ordered according to the latest post, and each discussion should mark clearly if it contains new posts. When you expand a thread, it should be possible to see which thread(s) contain new posts, and expand just that thread. It would also be cool if you could "flatten" a thread at arbitrary level, if you wish to view many articles simultaneously in the view pane.

I don't know about what web forums are available, but the ones that seem to be most popular also seem to be the simplest. They all offer a flat model without threading, which IMO sucks.

Am I alone in thinking that the LtU forum is in dire need of an upgrade? And does anyone know about *good* forums that meet the criteria I have listed?

Can I delete a post I made on the other forum?

I want to do this because I can't format it right.
Only about a quarter of the text shows, and it stops mid-phrase.

R.K.

Hai i have got memory fault error while executing my code and immidietly another statemnet saying coredump. Can anyone tell me what is the meaning of this error and what are the what may be the origin of this.

I thought that posting to an old topic would make it active again. This appears not to be the case. I justed added a question to this discussion from february, but this seems pretty pointless if no one will notice it.

Could we have a way to change the comment viewing options (temporarily) just for one thread (a la Slashdot)?

Another request would be a direct to a post in the thread view. Sometimes I'm reading a thread and want to bookmark a specially insighful post, but I can't just open the post in another tab/window and bookmark it, I have to change the view to collapsed, find the post again, click on it and then bookmark it. It's a habit I acquired while reading the old LtU.