You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.

River ,'Objects In Space'


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Burrell - Nov 11, 2002 6:48:06 pm PST #1404 of 10000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I leave mine at 5 & occasionally push Read New to see what comes up.


John H - Nov 11, 2002 6:48:14 pm PST #1405 of 10000

hitting 'read new' is easier on bandwidth than setting it to automatically refresh?

Yes, unless you do it more often than once a minute, in which case it isn't.

I'm a five-minute-minimum voter myself.


P.M. Marc - Nov 11, 2002 6:54:22 pm PST #1406 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Can we split the difference, have it be 3?

(Signed, set to 1 minute refresh, still hits F5, hates read new, as it confuses small brained mammalself)


John H - Nov 11, 2002 7:06:15 pm PST #1407 of 10000

How come splitting the difference = 3?


P.M. Marc - Nov 11, 2002 7:07:39 pm PST #1408 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

1 2 3 4 5

Sorta.

And five seems long to my hyperself, but 3 is a number I can deal with with less fidgeting.


Rob - Nov 11, 2002 7:09:44 pm PST #1409 of 10000

Would taking all the whitespace out of the generated HTML help at all? To me, it seems like it might.

When I took the source for the message center page and measured it in BBEdit, it came out to 13,194 bytes. When I ran it through BBEdit's HTML optimizer, it came out at 10,563 bytes, a savings of 17%.


Michele T. - Nov 11, 2002 7:18:25 pm PST #1410 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

OK, I have to ask -- what do people not like with "read new"?


P.M. Marc - Nov 11, 2002 7:19:57 pm PST #1411 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

It's like an automatic car. It gives me the creeps, gut level. This has been the case with any BBS I've used with a form of RN.

I have control issues.


Hil R. - Nov 11, 2002 7:20:24 pm PST #1412 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I don't like the randomness of it. I like to be able to see where I have new messages and then decide which ones I want to read first.


John H - Nov 11, 2002 7:24:02 pm PST #1413 of 10000

Yeah me too. I want to be able to look at all the different threads and see which ones have been active, and how active. I never used "Read New" in the old days on WX either.

I would have to say though, that the Message Centre does add another stage. Are there any new messages? Yes there are. Which shall I read first? Click! Whereas RN just takes you somewhere and you start reading straight away.

Rob's suggestion of optimisation gets the thumbs up from me, too. 17% is a lot.