How to mark a post as answered/solved?

Daniel Wainwright wrote on Sat, 05 February 2011 10:54

Is it possible to mark a thread you started as answered/solved once you

feel your OP is answered?

Hello Daniel,

It's probably a good time to give a bit of history to the EAGLE forums.

I'm sure there are a lot of new people who don't know this history and how

this all works.  I should put this into an FAQ somewhere...  (I'm in no way

speaking for CadSoft, consider it a third-party outside view over the last

1.5 decades...)

Anyways, for decades CadSoft's official support forums have been using

NNTP.  This was a great, generic bulletin board system for those who are

too young to know.  It preceded the days of windowed OS's and was strictly

text based.  Great system for what it was and still very useful for today.

There are NNTP clients (many free) for all OS's.

CadSoft has publicly stated that it wants to continue to keep the main

support system on the nntp platform for various reasons.  There are many

who swear by the system and don't want to see change.  But there is a whole

new generation who may not even know what a news client or nntp is.  And to

make matters worse, many corporate environments are now starting to close

down port 119 on their networks which is the port that nntp uses.  Finally,

it is now the defacto standard to have a support web forum.  So while nntp

is still as good as it ever was there are other concerns and issues that

are now in the marketplace.

So a few years ago I decided that my company, Startford Digital, would

provide a web interface to the nntp servers.  CadSoft was supportive and

provided some assistance in accessing their system.  They just asked that

we be sure we aren't the cause of spam and that all the messages sync up

with the official nntp servers so that we still have one community to go to

for all answers.

EAGLE Central isn't perfect but it's pretty good and we're trying to make

it better all the time (albeit slowly since we have other money-making

things to do as well).  In the last week we finally added mime-encoded

attachments which should now handle attachments in the most modern way

(they were uuencoded which does work but can be cumbersome).

Element14 came about after CadSoft was acquired by Farnell and they now

provide another web interface.  (I won't trash it but I'm biased--I think

eaglecentral.ca is much better).  But they've attempted to do what I did a

few years ago but in a different way.

So NNTP is still the main forum server and the web interfaces sync to it.

All that to give background to answer your question:  Yes the web

interfaces could do something like you've suggested.  But that won't

translate to the NNTP protocol so I'm not inclined to implement it (Element

14 may have a different idea).

Hope that helps answer your question.

Cheers,

James.

--

James Morrison  ~~~  Stratford Digital

Specializing in CadSoft EAGLE

• Online Sales to North America

• Electronic Design Services

• EAGLE Enterprise Toolkit

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Web access to CadSoft support forums at www.eaglecentral.ca.  Where the CadSoft EAGLE community meets.

James Morrison wrote:

..........................EAGLE Central isn't perfect but it's pretty good

and we're trying to

make it better all the time (albeit slowly since we have other

money-making things to do as well).  In the last week we finally

added mime-encoded attachments which should now handle attachments in

the most modern way (they were uuencoded which does work but can be

cumbersome).

 

Element14 came about after CadSoft was acquired by Farnell and they

now provide another web interface.  (I won't trash it but I'm

biased--I think eaglecentral.ca is much better).  But they've

attempted to do what I did a few years ago but in a different way.

 

Nice write up James

Great to see mime attachements finally.  By way of a test, perhaps Tilmann

could comment on how well it performs.

Element14 seems to be away off on its own. It still links to the Newsgroup,

but still doesn't pass through any attachments their users have

uploaded.(Element23 really)

Strangely, for an owner, their direction appears destined to splinter the

Eagle community. This may not be a bad thing. Initially the majority of

posts we have seen come through are from junior users of Eagle and perhaps

their requests are best fielded in the Element14 sandbox. They now have

discussion forums and  forum topics that appear to be now prevented from

feeding the Newsgroup. I dont mind it going that way as it keeps most of the

excited beginner questions off the Newsgroup. Their site format will likely

garner increased Eagle customers from the newer generations.

Regards

Warren

Hi!

Am Samstag, den 05.02.2011, 15:54 +0000 schrieb Daniel Wainwright:

Is it possible to mark a thread you started as answered/solved once

you feel your OP is answered?

IMHO the best way to "mark" a thread as answered is to reply to the last

poster and thank all posters for their help.

If all this solved a tricky problem, it is also very welcome if you

summarize the way you solved it in a post with "[solved]" prepended to

the subject. This will help future searchers for the same problem.

Bye

  Hansi

Warren Brayshaw schrieb:

Nice write up James

Agreed.

Great to see mime attachements finally.  By way of a test, perhaps Tilmann

could comment on how well it performs.

From James' tests I saw in the test newsgroup, it seems to work

perfectly fine now. This is a great step forward.

Tilmann