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Classic and Mega together?

badger2305@ — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:44:49 -0500

I'm scratching my head over the combination of Classic Traveller and MegaTraveller. Mechanically they are different from one another (I like both quite a bit, but for different reasons), and the settings are also somewhat different (at least chronologically).

Additionally, when I started playing Traveller back in '77, CT was used for lots of other homebrew settings than the Third Imperium (not unlike Original D&D). MT, by contrast, was firmly tied to the Third Imperium setting.

Would it be too much to ask that CT and MT get their own forums? The other versions seem to rate this, so I'm hopeful my request will be granted. Thanks!

Formatting

rgd@ — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:36:00 -0500

Hey Jeff,  good job getting these forums up and running.  Thanks!


I tried the web interface and it works. (Will you be able to edit your 
posts once you post them?  I've seen that on other boards, but I wonder now 
- that one uses a database backend that just sits there letting people read 
it, but if this one is hooked to a news server designed to send the posts 
out to other sites it may not support editing, just deleting (cancelling).)

I'm trying the nntp interface now, via Xnews.  Works quick.  I do notice 
that the formatting seems garbled on some posts (like the FAQ) but I'm not 
sure yet if that's the post itself or someone on my end in the 
configuration of Xnews' display (more likely).   Similarly the "seperator" 
lines are a tad confusing in the nntp reader, but maybe my newsreader is 
too old to support multi-format posts.

Anyone have free news reader recommendations?

Re: Classic and Mega together?

newsadmin@freelancetraveller.com — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:21:45 -0500

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:44:49 -0500, badger2305 wrote:

>I'm scratching my head over the combination of Classic Traveller and 
>MegaTraveller.  Mechanically they are different from one another (I like 
>both quite a bit, but for different reasons), and the settings are also 
>somewhat different (at least chronologically).

>Additionally, when I started playing Traveller back in '77, CT was used for 
>lots of other homebrew settings than the Third Imperium (not unlike Original
> D&D).  MT, by contrast, was firmly tied to the Third Imperium setting.

>Would it be too much to ask that CT and MT get their own forums?  The other 
>versions seem to rate this, so I'm hopeful my request will be granted.  
>Thanks!

I'll take that under advisement, but given the current lack of traffic,
I'm not sure it's worth it.

I'm also not sure that the two systems are really all that different; my
impression was always that the MT system was a superset of the CT
system, and the changes could easily be 'backported' without doing
violence to established material.

Could you perhaps post - in that group - your perceptions of the
differences that lead you to suggest that they shouldn't be
consolidated?

Re: Formatting

newsadmin@freelancetraveller.com — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:43:03 -0500

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:36:00 -0500, rgd wrote:

>Hey Jeff,  good job getting these forums up and running.  Thanks!

>I tried the web interface and it works. (Will you be able to edit your 
>posts once you post them?  I've seen that on other boards, but I wonder now 
>- that one uses a database backend that just sits there letting people read 
>it, but if this one is hooked to a news server designed to send the posts 
>out to other sites it may not support editing, just deleting (cancelling).)

No, post editing won't be supported, because (as you surmise) this is
fundamentally an NNTP server with a web interface grafted on.

>I'm trying the nntp interface now, via Xnews.  Works quick.  I do notice 
>that the formatting seems garbled on some posts (like the FAQ) but I'm not 
>sure yet if that's the post itself or someone on my end in the 
>configuration of Xnews' display (more likely).   Similarly the "seperator" 
>lines are a tad confusing in the nntp reader, but maybe my newsreader is 
>too old to support multi-format posts.

It's the post, not your reader; there seems to be some issues in the
AJAX components when it comes to adding the text/plain version of the
posting. It looks better in a newsreader that supports text/html.

>Anyone have free news reader recommendations?

The one I use is not free (though it's not expensive) - Forté Agent,
http://www.forteinc.com.  Windows only; I'm not sure what platform
you're on.

A Windows-only reader that used to be available and decent - and a lot
like Agent - was 40tude Dialog.  Whether it's still around, I can't tell
you.

There's always G-dhelpusOutlookExpress. Also Windows-only.

Thunderbird, from the Mozilla project - multiplatform, like its browser
sibling.

Opera, the browser, also has built-in news and email clients. The web
interface, as indicated, doesn't play well with Opera, but the news
client should be OK. Multiplatform.

Spellcheck

jrmapes@ckt.net — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:05:32 -0500

Is there a spellcheck add-in for the MPNews software? Normally Firefox's built in spellcheck will work on most sites but it won't for some reason with this package.

Jerry

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Re: Spellcheck

newsadmin@freelancetraveller.com — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:06:35 -0500

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:05:32 -0500, "JRMapes" <jrmapes@ckt.net> wrote:

>    Is there a spellcheck add-in for the MPNews software? Normally Firefox's 
>built in spellcheck will work on most sites but it won't for some reason 
>with this package. 

It's already there, as part of the core AJAX component; on the bottom
toolbar, to the right of the font and formatting drop-downs, there's an
icon that looks like a checkmark with a small "ABC" above it.

Re: Spellcheck

jrmapes@ckt.net — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:30:29 -0500

well I'll be a....

I looked all over in those little icons. Thanks for the heads up.

Jerry

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