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From: Charles Mayfield <>
Subject: Re: [BD-ADM] Re: Message Boards: Links and Announcements Reminder
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:55:54 -0600
In-Reply-To: <46.1f431116.2949707d@aol.com>


I guess if they made it too easy, then just anyone could do it......

Maybe there is a reason that when I am logged in as admin, I
can not see the L&A pages. Could someone in the know tell
me what that reason is?

It would be so simple to leave the link
to the L&A pages there for both cases and just add another link
when in admin mode that allows the editing...... Oh well, sometimes
smart people can not see the forest for the trees, I guess. I am just
a stupid volunteer.

Chuck

At 09:46 PM 12/12/2001 -0500, wrote:
>In a message dated 12/12/01 9:06:21 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> > 1. Did you send this message to all board admins?
>
>Hi, Charles-
>
>I cannot speak for Vicki or staff but I think I can answer at least some of
>your questions. The notice was sent out using the board admins announcement
>tool which replaced the old GenConnect-Announce list used to notify all board
>admins at once. Glad to see this tool is now working!
>
> > 2. If you know my email address, then why do I have to maintain it on
> each
> > of my six boards?
>
>Your email address for sending this notice comes from your address in My
>Profile (your account information) which you are able to keep up-to-date for
>all boards universally. The problem is that changing your address in My
>Profile doesn't update your email address on your boards' L&A pages. You
>need to update each one manually for the boards you admin.
>
> > 4. Why could you not give me the courtesy of at least telling me which of
> > my six boards that I failed to make it through the maze of clicks and
> > keystrokes required to make a simple change (from @home to @attbi)?
>
>Because you may well have done them all. I've never changed my email address
>and I was notified right along with you. This is just a reminder that if you
>have not updated the L&A pages AND you have changed email addresses since
>registering to admin boards--you need to check and update if the pages are
>not current.
>
> > 5. Why does it have to be so difficult to administer these boards? If
> you
> > are the admin, you CAN NOT EVEN SEE THE L&A PAGE WITHOUT GOING THROUGH A
> > MAZE OF NOT-INTUITIVE CLICKS AND
> > KEYSTROKES. If you are not logged in as the admin, then YOU CAN NOT
> > CHANGE AN ERRONEOUS ADDRESS ON THE L&A PAGE WITHOUT GOING THROUGH A MAZE
>OF
> > NOT-INTUITIVE CLICKS AND KEYSTROKES.
>
>Well, I can't answer THAT one--I think many features that we have reported
>we'd like to have are still pending but I don't know whether there are any
>pending changes involving the maintenance of the L&A pages. I did speak with
>the programmer about this very issue when I was still on staff. I told him I
>felt that it negated any advantage to having a universal address update
>capability for board admins if they still had to manually update EACH and
>every L&A page. I asked him why the L&A page couldn't be updated universally
>whenever My Profile was updated for an admin's account. It seemed to me (a
>non-techie) as if it should be easy to accomplish because the admin address
>on the L&A page is generated automatically when a board is adopted.
>
>The programmer explained that it isn't that easy--that aside from the initial
>creation of this page the L&A pages are NOT linked in any way to the account
>information. He also implied that it would be pretty difficult to link them
>to accomplish what I was asking for. I got the feeling that it wouldn't be
>done. Of course, things may have changed in the ensuing months since I left
>staff. Let's hope somehow it can be accomplished.
>
>Joan
>
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