Peter wrote:
Filling in the form is very quick once you have done one before, because the browser remembers the previous stuff like aircraft type.
Let’s see how many fly-in participants will fill-in report for LESU
Filling in the form is very quick once you have done one before, because the browser remembers the previous stuff like aircraft type.
Peter wrote:
That’s why people should contribute to our airports database
I always look at database for recent reports before searching trip reports at forum. The other they I looked for info LFBO and found nothing and, after asking here, I got reply on recent visits. I understand that sometimes is boring to fill in the form but this is really useful for many forum members.
Maybe the two functions are on the same tickbox? You won’t get notifications on new posts unless you explicitly follow a thread.
I’ve that unticked because I don’t want notifications about new posts.
Receive Watch Notifications
Do you want to receive a notification whenever a new post is made on a thread you’re watching or a thread is started in a topic you’re watching?
Interesting. I get loads, and it is readily apparent in general that others do also.
All go out via the same system, using a 3rd party email server to avoid the standard blacklisting issues with running own smtp servers.
However, the automatic “@…” notifications are obviously a different text from PMs and may look more “machine like” and thus get dumped by your ISP filters. See link below, and others, re whitelisting euroga.org.
Fly-in emails are sent from a separate system which uses DKIM signing. This one costs real money and has usage caps on it which is why we don’t do mailshots all the time. And any email system which is dumping those is crap (still, some do).
Also check this in your Preferences
Peter wrote:
Normally, I insert a @ username tag in the new location to alert the poster that his post was moved.
Interestingly I never get the email when someone puts @ in front of my name. I’ve come across a few by chance and never got the email. But I do get PMs and flyin notices.
I have noticed @Peter will sometimes merge a new thread with something many years old
The real problem is that most people never use the Search function
and suddenly you cant work out where the thread went
Normally, I insert a @ username tag in the new location to alert the poster that his post was moved. So why didn’t this work? A lot of people have duff email addresses, or joined up with a bogus email address (nowadays that is a lot harder; I don’t approve new members to post if they did that, and the system checks the email address of new joinups against a list of about 2000 disposable email addresses) or just never read their email.
over 10 years old and no longer applicable.
That’s why people should contribute to our airports database Many do of course, but many more could and don’t, and some do but not usefully; the other day a Guest with a PA46 created an entry which omitted all the costs he/she paid. Unfortunately, a Guest can’t come back and edit the entry afterwards; that is the price paid for having a Guest facility which enables people to contribute to our database without getting excommunicated on their usual forum
LeSving wrote:
Digging up old threads, isn’t that considered bad behavior on most forums?
I dont have a problem with replying to a thread that is only a month or so old, even up to a year maybe… but I have noticed @Peter will sometimes merge a new thread with something many years old and suddenly you cant work out where the thread went and why there is a different discussion about something many pages long that appears to make no sense – and then you notice the date… If I see this it means that the last post would have been at least 3-4 years ago
The swiss thread is a good example of a) why this is good – lots of info all in one place. b) why this is bad – there is handling/fee info which is over 10 years old and no longer applicable.
Regards, SD..
DavidS wrote:
Sorry, I didn’t notice the six-year gap between the two posts!
Here was me thinking I was going nuts again……