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B. W. Amend
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> How do I get to or find e-mails to me?

If someone has sent you a note and used the private messaging system in our forums and you want to view it you must follow these steps:

- Be sure you're logged in.

- Go to the Lobby (click on "conferences" to get there)

- If you have a new message you should see a little red flag waving in the upper left quadrant of the screen. Click on the flag.

- No flag, no new messages

- If you don't have a new message, go to "User Menu" and select "Inbox."

I hope this is some help.

If you've allowed folks to see and send to your regular email, that will come through your regular email address.

Respectfully,

Provost

> How do I get to or find e-mails to me? Gary

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"You have elected to not accept our acceptable use policy.
Please click here to go to the main forum page."

Just to be clear, this probably means that you have some sort of security setting on your computer that is interferring with the cookie that our system is trying to put on your machine. If you are using Norton, see the message on this thread about the fix for that.

Regretably, the current bottom line is that if you can not accept the cookie, our software can not work on your system and you will not be able to join or post.

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Recently several users have notified us that they have had problems posting messages here after they installed Norton Internet Security software.

Bill Cross is owed a debt of gratitude in tracking down the place to change settings so that this now works:

Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 11:32:15 -0400
From: Bill Cross
To: CWR Provost <moderator@cwreenactors.com>
Subject: Re: posting error

Found the source of the error in case anyone else has the problem.

Norton Internet Security will block sites like yours that apparently generate script or applets. The key is to go to "options," then to "Advanced
Options" and enter the site's URL (www.cwreenactors.com is good enough). Then adjust the "Privacy" tab so all boxes show "green permit" icons. Then go to "Active Content" and make sure "Script" and "Binary Executables" read "allow."

Works like a charm now.

Bill

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To learn what good manners are on the net, go to most any search engine and enter the term "Netiquette".

"Much has been written about the importance of behaving diplomatically while online."

I used to have a favorite site linked on here but I think it got wiped out in the February hard drive crash, I'll try to relocate that.

For how to deal with -others- who are not exhibiting good manners on the forum, our chosen method to remedy that is the "alert" key, referred to elsewhere. This quotes the exact message in question, allows you space to comment on why you think this message exceeds our broad guidelines and sends me an email message including a hot link to go directly to that message. This vastly increases my ability to deal with problems in a timely manner.

If you argue with someone about it, it only compounds the problem.

You can read about those who delight in disrupting forums, often referred to as "trolls" and referred to (fondly) by me as "pirates," at the following link:

http://members.aol.com/intwg/trolls.htm

At the end of that page you will find a link to this site:

http://members.aol.com/intwg/guide.htm

which offers a short but very nice course on how to write effective messages on the internet. I have not scanned every line of each page there but the ones I've looked at would be helpful for many, I'm sure.

Lastly, if you'd like to recommend a site that speaks to this issue, please feel free to post it in the New Users forum or email me with the link.

Respectfully,

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http://home.sprynet.com/~bbih/rogues/RoguesGallery.html

Many thanks to Bruce Hoover for providing us with this service.

If you wish to contact Bruce directly you may do so at mailto:BBIH@sprynet.com .

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Notes on the New System

Please read this thread if you have questions that are not answered here.

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One will handle the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

One will be devoted to the Forum Guidelines (slightly updated and revised today).

The last is the place to look for What's New around the CWR forums.

You may notice that this menu bar changes appearance from page to page for a while. I had one version, then decided to add a third link and change the background color. That change will take a while to work it's way out from the master template to the final pages you see. But this is not an error and need not bother you.

Your feedback on how helpful these items are will be appreciated.

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