Frequently
Asked Questions
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The following document
contains answers to questions that are asked frequently by PAUG
AutoCAD Discussion Forum users.
FAQ Index
PAUG
AutoCAD Discussion Forum is a moderated discussion board. Its
purpose is to provide an electronic discussion forum that is
accessible to anyone on the World Wide Web (WWW). Users can
initiate and contribute to conversations. Conversations are
monitored and organized by moderators. PAUG AutoCAD Discussion
Forum is ideal for extending classroom discussions to the WWW,
conducting electronic conferences, and hosting public
discussions.
PAUG
AutoCAD Discussion Forum is organized into topics; each topic may
have subtopics, and so on. The basic topic structure is set up by
the board administrator and the topic moderators. Within each
subtopic are conversations about an aspect of the topic and/or
additional subtopics. Users can post messages to these
conversations and/or create new conversations within the
structure.
Anyone
with access to the World Wide Web may access PAUG AutoCAD
Discussion Forum and read any of the posts on PAUG AutoCAD
Discussion Forum. Users may post messages and create new
subtopics (a user account may be required to do this). User
accounts are created by discussion moderators.
If you do
want to post anonymously, you can check the Post message as
"Anonymous" option at the bottom of the posting
form, in which case you will be referred to as
"Anonymous" on the posting screen. However, a log is
kept of all posts, and the board administrator or moderators can
trace objectionable messages.
You can
format your post using a set of formatting tags. You do not have
to know HTML to use these formatting tags. A guide to using these
formatting tags to format messages is available on the formatting
page, available from the main menu.
At
the discretion of the moderator, links to various World Wide Web
(WWW) documents can be included on topic pages. When you click on
a such link, you are brought away from PAUG AutoCAD Discussion
Forum. However, in most cases, the PAUG AutoCAD Discussion Forum
main menu is still displayed in the frame to the left of the
screen. To get back to PAUG AutoCAD Discussion Forum, either use
your browser's back button or click on the "PAUG AutoCAD
Discussion Forum Topics" link from the PAUG AutoCAD
Discussion Forum main menu.
Depending
on your browser and operating system, some special characters and
formatting will not be displayed correctly. This is especially noticeable with browsers below Netscape Navigator 3.0 and below
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0. Some fonts are specific to the
Windows operating system and will not be displayed correctly on
other platforms.
To
contact moderators, click on the "Contact" link from
the main menu. You will be presented with the name and e-mail
address of the board administrator.
At the
discretion of the moderators, PAUG AutoCAD Discussion Forum
includes the ability for users to set up a "user
profile." Users may specify their e-mail address, full name,
and whether or not they want to receive e-mail notification of
posts. Users may also change their passwords. To access the user
profile editor, click on "User Profile" from the main
menu.
The
most effective way to use the new message reader is to perform
your search, checking for new messages since you last checked (by
providing your username and password). When the results are
displayed, choose to open the link in a new browser window. When
you are finished reading the messages (and posting any replies),
close the new window and then continue down the list of new
messages.
The
keyword search engine searches the text of messages in those
topics that you select and returns the results based on the
number of times that any of the keyword(s) appear on the page,
i.e., an "or" search. You can perform a "custom
search" to require or exclude words as follows:
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