Here is a brief explanation of some of the questions you may have about the bulletin board.

• Posting Messages and Follow-up?
• Can I use html tags anywhere in my posts?
• Why are there colons in the message section when I try post a followup?
• Why didn't my post show up?

Posting Messages and Follow-ups?

You must fill the in the name, subject, and message fields for your post to work correctly - otherwise you'll receive an error message prompting you to fill in the missing information.

Upon successfully posting a message, you'll be presented with a summary of your post. If you'd like to view your actual message, simply click on "Go to Your Message". To get back to the main bulletin board, click on "Bulletin Board Home". Most likely, you'll have to click "reload" on your browser in order for your message title to appear. In some cases (if your browser is "buggy"), you might have to actually clear your cache.

You are able to post a "follow-up" to a message in the form provided directly underneath the current message. By default, the original message is contained within the body of the follow-up and is marked with ":" down the left hand margin. You are free to remove the original message as well as re-name the subject field to something other than "re: current post" if you want to create a "sub-topic" underneath the original topic.

Can I put html tags anywhere in my posts?

No. You can not use HTML tags in any field except body of the message. The maintainer of the script has the option of allowing or disallowing any HTML in the Message part of your posting. If they disallow it, the script will just throw out everything in <>'s. If they allow it, your html markup will appear in the posting. It can't hurt to try.

Why are there colons in the message when I try to post a followup?

Colons appear in the message dialog box when you try to followup up on a message to indicate that those lines are quoting the previous document. The owner of the WWWBoard can decide whether they wish to enable or disable the quoting of previous messages.

Why didn't my post show up?

Your post most likely did not show up, because your browser did not reload the page, it simply pulled it out of cache. Please reload your browser and it should then appear.

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