Massive Free Republic Changes

[John Robinson]

Amen! Thanks!

[John Robinson]

Style. Yes, I filtered because the positional attributes are a problem. I will enable style again once I parse the style sheets.

[jjbrouwer]

Thanks John. I'll get him to email you.

Regarding the Commonwealth Forum: In terms of selling the idea to Jim, the major question is always going to be, 'Sure but what do I get out of it?'

One suggestion is that we could initially all make a tinsy donation to FR just to pay for the running costs.

Perhaps you could stick a paypal visa link up on the page and basically insist anyone who joined the locale had to pay five bucks. Small enough not to put anyone off, hopefully large enough to start the ball rolling.

That would be quite apart from whatever money we might earn the site from fundraisers during the year etc.

The guy who makes the chat rooms is of Australian descent so perhaps he could also occasionally offer you technical advice to help out the site in return for membership of a Commonwealth forum.

[John Robinson]

Ah...

In renegotiations, UUNET quoted $7,500 less than the existing contract. Essentially, they came down "a little" from last year's contract cost.

Verio was able to underbid the new UUNET quote by a whopping $17,500. Altogether, that is $25,000 less than the current contract cost. In other words, bandwidth will be roughly $2,000 dollars per month less than what is being paid now. My point being, despite the hassle, moving to Verio is really worth it.

[John Robinson]

Engineers. :-P

My apologies for leaving out that crucial bit of info, I assumed the meaning would be inferred. On a personal note, I rarely "showed my work" in math class, preferring to quickly juggle the numbers in my head rather than working out all the carry overs on paper. (There are some neat tricks to solving math problems in your head, the scaffolding gets in the way of those tricks.)

[John Robinson]

You are using Netscape. Something I did to the format of Latest Posts aggravated a bug in Netscape. I'll have that fixed soon.

[unsycophant]

Oh, bandwidth: If Mojo feels so confident that he could do a better job finding decent bandwidth, why don't you have him go out and fetch some quotes

Maybe the reason that Moojo hasn't already done this is because he is unable to FIND better quotes. It makes things easier for antifreepers if they keep drinking the Moolaid. It MUST be true because Moojo says it-he NEVER distorts facts. ha.

[unsycophant]

when I pull something from thin air, I call it Atmospheric Extrapolation

Do you say "Presto!!", silly rabbit?

[Grampa Dave]

Sounds Great John! Try to get some rest. Hopefully it will work better and will cost FR less money. That's a double win!

My wife was praying for a shutdown of Free Republic from Christmas Eve to 2 January. She is off work that week and sees FR as a competitor!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Thanks to you and your dad for all you do, and you Mother for putting up with the two of you!

[patj]

Thank you very much for the quick response.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

This read like UUNET made their reductions after VERIO's bid so the $7,500 number hasn't been explained. I'm an engineer so this kinds of differences are glaring to me.

I believe that John Robinson's answers to you in 244 and 245 should handle your questions on this. I have to say, I sure am glad I left engineering school if it makes one so 'anal retentive'. No offence ;-)

[terilyn]

If FReepmail going to be revised also or will that remain the same?

[diotima]

Trix are for kids!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Though it is an interesting article, my comment was more or less tongue in cheek. =;^)

[unsycophant]

Exactly. heh heh.

[facedown]

BTTT

[supercat]

Style. Yes, I filtered because the positional attributes are a problem. I will enable style again once I parse the style sheets.

Did you mean parse inline style attributes? They're different from style sheets (as of course you know).

You still
support table-align
I see
(good).

What sorts of positional attributes are you worried about? I wasn't aware of any that would operate beyond a [div][/div].

[editor-surveyor]

"Could you squeeze in a way where you can figure out (click to reach) the particular post that someone was replying to? That was the one feature of the old style that is sorely lacking."

It's already there!

Look under the postor's handle, and slightly to the left.

Click on that number, and it will take you to the reply that is being replied to.

[editor-surveyor]

"'Course I liked Baby Ruths for a nickel, too!"

My mom once told me that they were 2 cents when she was a kid... :-)

[klee]

What, and run the risk of inflating Harry_potters ego even further?