Then we should spank them.

Or we could reply straight away and say "if it's about changing your password, you have to use this form".

If I wrote to you it wouldn't be from the address I used for this board anyway.

Well, you're speaking as someone with more than one. So far I haven't fielded a request with the wrong e-mail address.

Besides we shouldn't force people to mail from the form. It's bad usability. That's why there's also a mailto: link on the e-mail admins page.

As for t s -- I don't know if it's still true, but as of a year or so ago, it showed up in fewer browsers than t strike -- meaning I was getting some fuckedstrange posts displayed.

Maybe I'm missing something, but "change password" is already in Set Profile.

This is for people who don't remember their passwords.

we shouldn't force people to mail from the form

The only benefit is you can force people to tell you all the stuff you need to know. I use forms for this at work because there's always something they forget. But there's a lot more data required in those work situations.

You can construct the mailto: link so that it it adds the username into the subject of the email, how about that?

<s> -- I don't know if it's still true, but as of a year or so ago, it showed up in fewer browsers than <strike>

Really? Hadn't heard that. OK ignore me then.

You can construct the mailto: link so that it it adds the username into the subject of the email, how about that?

With some e-mail clients. With others, it slings a lot of stuff in the to line, and you have to edit it out.

However, if they've forgotten their password and can't log in, the board doesn't know who they are.

You can construct the mailto: link so that it it adds the username into the subject of the email, how about that?

And how would it know what the username is if the person isn't logged in (because they forgot their password)?

t edit what ita said.

OK I was being dumb. It's early here yet.

Here's a note on the "S" tag, in case anybody's interested:

The S element, deprecated in HTML 4.0, suggests that text be rendered with a strike-through style. In many cases, use of a phrase element such as DEL is more appropriate since such elements express the meaning of the text more clearly. However, since support for DEL among browsers is weak, S could be useful in combination with DEL, as in the following example:

The latest version of HTML recommended by the W3C is HTML <DEL DATETIME="1997-12-19T00:00:00-05:00"><S>3.2</S></DEL> <INS DATETIME="1997-12-19T00:00:00-05:00">4.0</INS>.

Note that STRIKE is better supported than S (based on Netscape 2.x and 1.22 supporting STRIKE but not S), and so STRIKE should be used in place of S. There does not appear to be any advantage to using both STRIKE and S; all browsers that support S also seem to support STRIKE.

From [link] -- very useful site.

Quote issue -- I just got this:

Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!'

Oz, ''

Should we be doing something different with this kind of thing?

You mean the extra quote? Or the two blanks for the ep name? Because I deleted the quote mark, but I can't see why there'd be no ep name.

Oh, nix that. It had an episode number, a season number, but no show name. Finis!