The Archive, Some egroups mail stuff

[Simon Branford]

No: HPFGUIDX 127

"First, the title change doesn't show up in the page title bar.  I'm not
sure of the technical name for it"

I believe it is called the meta title, but I do not have much knowledge of
HTML and all that I do have is self taught.

"Second, I'm unable to view the hit counter in my browser; not sure if it's
just me."

I believe this is just you. I can view it. It does not update when I visit
the page, but I believe this is because of an option I have selected.

Smitster has made a good job of the archive and the HTML is simple yet
effective - something that is uncommon for newbie's to the HTML world (have
a look at any page that has been converted from MS word - they are very
heavy on HTML tags). HTML tags, most of which are unneeded, increase the
download time, for pages, massively and some people on the group will be
paying per minute for time on-line.

"and some other mailers can be set to send mail formatted with HTML.  MS's
even defaults to that, I believe."

Netscape also defaults to this.

"If you are going to reply to one or more messages in a digest, it is most
polite to copy and paste the topic of the individual message into your
subject line; and similarly to copy and paste to quote only the portions of
that individual message, not the whole Digest. (This is a sore point for me
on some lists, hence my emphasis on it.)"

Please change the subject line to a good indication of the message subject.
On e-groups there is no, or at least a longer, maximum subject length so
people can be more descriptive. Please can people also remember to change
the subject line if the message changes subject. This is especially
important during the chapter discussions where things may go off topic or
change to incorporate other subjects very quickly. Some of us do not read
all the messages and decide on which to read by the subject line.

Simon