How about three cheers now that things are working slick as greased lightning!? And the indexing is approaching instantaneous.<BR><BR>Thank you Caragh Rockwood, Danny Mangin and senior Random House management who help make the right decision about supporting and operating this wonderful site.<BR><BR>Best wishes,<BR><BR>Rex Bickers<BR>Westerville, Ohio<BR>[email protected]<BR>

I agree...it seems to be working fine now!<BR><BR>THANK YOU!

Admirable sentiment, Rex. But it's human nature not to notice when things work the way they are supposed to.<BR><BR>How about three cheers for that plane that landed safely instead of crashing!?<BR><BR>Better yet, how about a nod to those who waited patiently for Fodors to get the bugs out rather than whining mercilessly?

Good sentiments. And Belinda, I've been on flights when the passengers applauded a safe landing.<BR><BR>Here's a thought. Maybe Fodors did all that trouble deliberately so that the people who only like to complain and post nasty or rude comments would get frustrated and leave (as a bunch of them said they would). And maybe they made posting so difficult so only those who were dedicated enough to really want to talk about travel would stick through it?<BR><BR>In any case, I have't run into a single posting or logging problem since yesterday afternoon, so I'm happy!!

Patrick, that statement is not true I am not a complainer nor or others that Fodors would be devious to such actions. Shame on you. Just because you could post easily , there are some of us who had trouble.

I think that Patrick's speculation about &quot;deliberate trouble&quot; was 90% tongue in cheek (I hope it was).<BR><BR>I think that everyone had some trouble in the past day or two. Even Patrick. Some people were more persistent. No red badges of courage earned though.<BR><BR>It's a website, ya' know?<BR>

Oh - - and lest I come across as all syrupy sweet/cheerleaders for Fodors - - here's a nag I'll throw back into the stack. When can we have the ability to edit the typos out of our message headers (and full text)? Like the very first word in the message header of THIS thread! Sheez!<BR><BR>Seems like with registration, it ought to be possible to make that possible - - since there is verification of who posted, and who wants to edit!<BR>

Oh dear, I can't believe anybody took that statement seriously!! Guess my tongue in cheeck humor didn't work. Of course, it isn't true. And if you looked at the posts about troubles, you'll find them filled with my complaints about it not working for me as well. I had every problem there was.<BR><BR>But on the other hand, I do believe that people who only wanted to waste a little time by posting an occassional slam or rudeness were less persistent about continuing to try to post than those of us who love travel talk so much, we stuck through it no matter how difficult it got.<BR><BR>But now, I've asked this before and I'll ask it again. What exactly are you talking about on the editing deal, Rex? On my computer, the message won't post until I tell it to. So I have hours if I want to, to edit and re-edit my post and its title. That doesn't mean I don't still make mistakes, but I don't get what else needs to be done? For example, couldn't you have reviewed your message and changed that spelling before hitting &quot;post my reply&quot;?

Patrick:<BR><BR>Many message boards have an edit function that allows you to go back and make changes/corrections to your post. I don't see it as an essential item - I try to review what I write before I post and make corrections if needed - but it's a nice feature because everyone makes mistakes sometimes, and some people (myself included) hate to see an error in their posts. It's nice to be able to go back in and fix an error or change a word, or even delete something you wrote that maybe you didn't really want to say. That's all.

OK, I guess I'll admit stupidity. I'll have to look for one of those sites to see how it differs from this, as I just don't get it.<BR><BR>In fact, I just looked at this message, and went back and added the s to differ. Maybe this special editing feature being described would have made that easier?

Here's another cheer for the bugs being gone! It's nice to be able to post so quickly now.<BR><BR>I know I said on the US forum that I wasn't having trouble, but I DID finally being having trouble in the last couple of days. Glad it didn't last too long.<BR><BR>

I just noticed that since we've had registration I haven't seen one person nag anyone about spelling or grammar! I'll give three cheers for THAT!

Patrick the Frommers forums have editing, and it is a very nice feature. Not essential, but nice. Why? For one thing, sometimes errors are more apparent after something is posted than in the box, that's why. It's just a visual thing, easier to proofread. <BR><BR>Also, on that forum, I can notice when I've include a URL but forgot the hyperlink part so it's not clickable, and add that. Also, you can see if some spacing didn't turn out the way you thought. <BR><BR>Finally, you have up to a half hour to edit it or even delete the entire post. While I try to think ahead of time and not post irrationally, once in a while, I imagine even you might decide you shouldn't have said something and want to erase it. Sometimes, upon viewing the post, you may feel it comes across a little differently than you meant, for example.<BR><BR>It really is a nice feature, trust me.

Patrick:<BR><BR>Once you've hit the &quot;Post My Reply&quot; button here, you're stuck with whatever you wrote. You cannot go back and change anything, no matter how much you'd like to.<BR>An edit feature allows you to RE-access your own post (but not other people's posts) to make corrections AFTER your post has been posted. Is that clearer?

Yes, St.Cirq, I understand that perfectly. I guess I just didn't understand why if a person wants to edit his post and check his spelling, he doesn't do it before he hits &quot;post my reply&quot;. <BR> <BR>I did go to Frommer's and checked that out. Now I see the difference. But frankly, I guess I still don't see the point. I find it just as easy to edit my reply here before hitting &quot;post&quot; as to do it there twice. The same basic rule still applies. Once you've edited and hit the final post button on Frommer's you can't edit again either. <BR><BR>Sorry, I didn't mean to make a big deal about it. I'm no computer expert, that's for sure, and just couldn't figure out what people meant by a special edit feature. Now at least I understand what they're talking about. I try to edit my posts before I hit &quot;post&quot;, but like others I still miss errors and say things wrong. But for me, I'm not sure the other system would work any better than this one.

I'm probably getting way ahead of Fodors capability here but I love discussion boards where, when you access your own log-in profile, links to all your most recent posts appear - its an easy way to access &amp; find threads you've contributed to. Just a personal wishlist for this board but by no means essential ie, I won't threaten to leave if it never happens ;-)

There are different ways to provide an edit capability. Another board that I use allows you the capability to edit or delete your post for 30 minutes after you've posted it. Editing is useful for me because I still sometimes find errors or decide that I want to re-word something after posting.

The trouble with a site allowing editing, is that inevitably, somebody starts a conversation saying something ridiculously offensive, then a lot of people post &quot;attacking&quot; the initial poster, then the initial poster alters his initial statement, and now the people &quot;attacking&quot; really _do_ look like they were attacking, and not responding to something the initial poster said.<BR><BR>So, I'm not a big fan of allowing people to edit their posts. It makes it so there's sort of a record of what has been said, (short of course, of Fodor's people deleting posts outright, but, then at least you _know_ they must have said something offensive.)<BR><BR>Bozo

OTOH, I do like the ability of searching by screen name.<BR><BR>Bozo

Well, actually Bozo, the situation that you describe happens here anyway because Fodors often deletes an offensive post while leaving the responses to it.