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I just noticed that the links to other articles in this page http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/Log4NetWebServiceAppender.aspx[^] and probably others are getting redirected to the not found page becuase the new articles are aspX and not asp. When clicking on links it may be good to append an x if the page is not found, or write a script to go through the articles and update the links.
just a suggestion.
Thanks!
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Adding an "x" isn't sufficient. We have a system in place that redirects the visitor to the new location. Can you send me the original .asp link that isn't working? If it's not mapped correctly then I can add it to our redirect mapping table
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Fixed
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Seems as though email is an issue. Some don't receive them, others are flagged as spam.
Sounds like you guys have your hands full, so it's probably not a good time to make a suggestion. But if I were to make a suggestion  how about another option:
Instead of sending an email, set an indicator on the members profile that informs them they have unread n# of comments. Then, just like you can see the comments you've posted, see the comments others have posted to you. And a simple option of reply or delete.
Personally, I check off "notify me by email" many times because I get enough emails already. But I do check the site serveral times daily.
Email is just another point of failure and added maintenance. Not knowing your architecture, though, it seems that you have everything you need captured right on the database. A simple page with unread messages and links doesn't sound like it would be too difficult to implement with what you have in place already.
Just a thought!
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Good thinking. I like it.
Added to TODO
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Bert delaVega wrote: Instead of sending an email, set an indicator on the members profile that informs them they have unread n# of comments. Then, just like you can see the comments you've posted, see the comments others have posted to you. And a simple option of reply or delete.
Oooh! And, add a feed to it, so we can check it in our feedreaders without needing to load up our profile pages! 
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That's a good idea. It would be cool to have another split pane, exactly like the "Last 10 Updates" but with messages to each user and the RSS option. A subscriber for the rss fee could bring it into their feed reader or they could just view it on the home page.
From a marketing standpoint, it's good to gather eyeballs. The problem I've always had with email is that it's too easy to just delete and/or forget. Hitting the site brings on more possibilities.
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Should there be some ISAPI filter or HttpModule that monitors the message that is being submitted to prevent an excessively big messages.
I would draw your attention to this one:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=12076&msg=2418787[^]
I find a few issues with this message:
1) A close watch of the SqlDataSource brings out a few nomenclature makes me think that the asker had been so careless to put the code of his organization on to the web just for the sake of getting his doubt answered.
2) The message is excessively lengthy.
Shouldn't there by an automatic monitor script to address these issues? I admit that imparting intelligence to an ASPX page in a web message boards can go crazy but I am just trying to initiate a brainstorming so that others can share their views.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Vasudevan Deepak K wrote: the asker had been so careless to put the code of his organization on to the web
The poster should be careful that he/she is not breaking any NDA that might have been signed.
Vasudevan Deepak K wrote: The message is excessively lengthy
Yes, it is. I didn't even bother to read through all the code. People really should just post the suspected trouble spot of their code when they need help 
"I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon
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Hi Team,
I am not getting any mail notifiactions for replies to my post though i am getting News letter from CP 
i have been facing these from couple of months
Thanks and Regards
Sandeep
If If you look at what you do not have in life, you don't have anything,
If you look at what you have in life, you have everything... "
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Message Automatically Removed[^]
edit: of course, with the addition of newer thread/posts, the link no longer homes in on the vanished post.
modified on Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:37:58 AM
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Not sure what you are referring to. Each message has a PermaLink link you can use to specify the message directly
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I thought I'd grabbed the PermaLink, obviously not.
Ah, I was grabbing the URL from the message header. Here's the PermaLink: Message Automatically Removed[^]
What I'm talking about is messages vanishing because certain person(s) (singular, plural -- I don't know, nor do I particularly want to know) don't like what I say.
Look, if these 'atheists' at CP want to make obtuse criticisms against "theism," they really don't have moral right or standing to throw temper-tantrums if I choose to try to explore (to the extent that one can explore anything important in the context of the SoapBox) their criticism.
Here is the exact content of the message -- other than the painful fact that directly pasting '<' and '>' into messages no longer works:
Justice -- 'Atheist' Style
Is it really true that:
<blockquote><a href="http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=2605&df=90&mpp=25&noise=3&sort=Position&view=Quick&select=2416276&fr=1#xx2416276xx">(in isolation)</a>[<a href="http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=2605&df=90&mpp=25&noise=3&sort=Position&view=Quick&select=2416276&fr=1#xx2416276xx" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>]:
It is certainly more just to simply forgive ... </blockquote>
As a stand-alone claim, this is worse than ludicrous, for it asserts that the negation of justice is "more just" than justice. And, with most ideas that one might want to add to it, the compound claim so generated is still ludicrous.
Nevertheless, that is the sort of "justice" that you folk are demanding (when it benefits you, of course) as the only justice you will deign to accept from God. Happily, God *is* Justice, so such pseudo-justice isn't on offer.
This is the post in full from which the above came:
<blockquote><a href="http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=2605&df=90&mpp=25&noise=3&sort=Position&view=Quick&select=2416276&fr=1#xx2416276xx">John Carson</a>[<a href="http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=2605&df=90&mpp=25&noise=3&sort=Position&view=Quick&select=2416276&fr=1#xx2416276xx" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>]:
<b>MrPlankton:</b> But would God be just if rebellion/sin were just forgiven with out consequence?
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<b>John Carson:</b> It is certainly more just to simply forgive than it is to punish the innocent in place of the guilty (assuming, for the sake of argument, that Jesus was innocent). Punishing the innocent, for whatever reason, is the opposite of justice.
The whole idea is just plain stupid and uncivilised. It is that way because the whole story is merely an invention of unjust and uncivilised human beings --- the same sort of people who in other cultures invented gods who required the sacrifice of virgins. </blockquote>
Even Mr Carson's full statement ("<i>It is certainly more just to simply forgive than it is to punish the innocent in place of the guilty ...</i>") isn't *really* correct; for there are no degrees to justice and injustice; justice is absolute.
Mr Carson is asserting that it is "more just" (which is logically impossible) to commit mercy (except that it's a most unjust sort of mercy his statement implies) upon the guily than to commit injustice upon the innocent. Well yes, it is, _definitially_, unjust to commit injustice upon the innocent ... regardless of how the guilty are dealt.
But refraining from committing injustice upon the innocent doesn't address how to deal with the guilty. The question is (and this is what MrPlankton was trying to get at): "<i>How is God to deal with the *guilty?*</i>" To ask the question is to answer it: <i>justly</i>. Anything other that justice is injustice.
"<i>Punishing the innocent, for whatever reason, is the opposite of justice.</i>"
As fate would have it, in a savage blow to Mr Carson's atheology, it turns out that he's barking up the wrong tree: Christ wasn't *merely punished,* as though he were the whipping-boy for some royal brat. Rather, he willingly took our sins into his own person ... he willingly *became* our sins. For all who humble their pride and admit that they are sinners, he took their sins into Hell/Death and left them there.
Amusingly enough, as it was Christ himself who created us (and our Cosmos), one more of the silly 'atheistic' attempted taunts was met long before they even thought to utter it [the one that goes something like this: "<i>whoever is responsible for this mess has some explaining (to me) to do</i>"].
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When we post messages in forum textbox, I would suggest, if you can provide keyboard accelerator keys at least for the most frequently used buttons, it would be cool.
For example, in a typical rich text editor, CTRL+B, CTRL+I, CTRL+U respectively stand for Bold, Italics and Underline. I recall an earlier response from Chris that this is not a true rich text editor. Hence I would suggest each button click can also be wired up to an event handler in JavaScript which can achieve this trick.
This would avoid unnecessary shunting back and forth between keyboard and mouse to provide emphasis in the message.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Now imagine how that can improve quality of Plz! IT'S URGNT!!!!! messages and reduce time to post them.
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head. (Charles M Strauss)
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I just thought that the following text might need a rephrase
View unanswered questions in the <forumname> forum</forumname>
Currently, a thread can be of any of the following category (General, News, Question, Answer, Joke). Hence the word 'question' applying for the thread itself seems to be a misnomer. Perhaps something like 'View threads with no followups' or related could befit more, without any affinity to a particular category of the thread.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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This page is there to allow member to find questions that have been unanswered. I see no point in listing jokes that have been unanswered, news items that have been unanswered, or general comments that have been unanswered.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I agree. Perhaps, if I understand right, your view would like 'Questions occupy lions-share of the forum entities and hence that should be given a significant stake as a prominent link to display them separately'. 
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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They can be phrased as:
1. View jokes that have not made anyone laugh
2. View news items no one cared about
3. View comments that have not been noticed.
What say you Vasudevan?
You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK
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Vasudevan Deepak K wrote: View unanswered questions in the forum
Maybe more like:
View unanswered threads in this forum?
I am not sure, but most threads in the programming forums do tend to be some kind of question, if it is grammatically formed right
"I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon
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I have reported a similar problem 'Reply' link that also triggers a notification to the author of the message. It had a issue like the message email address was carrying the real address of the sender instead of 'forums@codeproject.com'. Thanks to CP Team that they addressed it real quick. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
I just noticed a couple of days back that 'Email' link that generates an email to the author of the message is also afflicted with this syndrome.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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