Pagoda SL Group
W113 Pagoda SL Group => General Discussion => Topic started by: A Dalton on June 10, 2006, 06:44:49
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M
whoda thunk ......
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Congrats on post #1000! :)
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Originally posted by A Dalton
M
whoda thunk ......
Kevin Caputo
Boca Raton, FL
1967 230 SL Automatic
670 Light Ivory
113 Bronze/Brown MB Tex
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Congrats!!! And thank you!!! This forum, believe it or not, helps me every day. So again congrats and thank you again!
Bo
65 230sl
84 300sd
94 e320
98 ml320 (not impressed)
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Arthur,
I believe I have used about 999 of your posts, and I thank you and all the other experts who keep this forum as the source for the best advice on our 113's.
Many thanks,
g
'64 230sl, fully sorted out...ooops, spoke too soon
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Wow,
Is there anyway to print out all 1,ooo posts in a unique section - as an archive of mechanical pearls of wisdom?!
1967 230SL (Manual)
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1. Log into the Forum
2. Click on Dalton's ID
3. Below the space that shows his total number of posts, click on the small words, "Find all non-archived posts by A Dalton". That will open all the threads that A. Dalton has posted in.
4. Open the first thread.
5. Click on the "Printer Friendly" link to open a new window.
6. Click on Print Page.
7. Repeat for every thread!
Rodd
Powell, Ohio, USA
1966 230SL, Euro, Auto, Leather, both tops
1994 E420
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And now that we are on the subject, I suggest the same (find and print) procedure for the posts made by Joe Alexander, Dan Caron and you can probably name a few more favorites.
Cees ("Case") Klumper in Amsterdam
'69 white 280 SL automatic
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Where there's a will there's always a way!!! :)
1967 230SL (Manual)
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Well,
here is your friendly admin speaking. I just spent 5 minutes and wrote a database query that extracts all posts from a specific member out of the database. Regrettably you lose the context, formatting and layout and pictures if included (that would be a lot harder to do).
However, if someone would like to receive a copy of a 189 page document containing all 1000 posts of A Dalton, send me your mail address and I'll wing it your way! Obviously, I can do the same for Joe A, Dan C and any other members you'd care to mention such as Cees K.
Peter / Administrator
Check out http://bali.esweb.nl for photographs of classic car events and my 1970 280 SL
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Thanks Peter, that's great. I would like in fact to receive these couple hundred pages from Arthur, Joe and Dan's posts please (I don't have enough to do already)!
Cees ("Case") Klumper in Amsterdam
'69 white 280 SL automatic
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Cees,
You just thought I could not do it, he?
This is a collection of all of Joe Alexanders posts. The Topic is the orginal Topic Message. Reply is the reply Joe submitted. I can provide a text version of this info also for easy searching or other processing, although Acrobat Reader allows you to search through this also.
Have fun. For Joe Alexander it amounts to 1134 pages. Download it by right-clicking on the following link and selecting "Save Target As" http://www.sl113.org/Joe_Alexander.pdf. You can then read it at your leisure on your own PC using Acrobat Reader.
Note: it is 2.23MB big. Don't do this if you are on a dial-up link!
Note: No longer available, as it's out of date...
Peter
Check out http://bali.esweb.nl for photographs of classic car events and my 1970 280 SL
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I'm clearly spending too much time messing with this site and databases to post... I'll never ever achieve 1000 posts at this rate!
Peter
Check out http://bali.esweb.nl for photographs of classic car events and my 1970 280 SL
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What's really interesting... or sad, is that I noticed (as I am cleaning up the membership database) that this was also "A Dalton"'s last post, and indeed last visit to the website (10th of june 2006).
Anyone know what's happened to him? Has he reregistered under a different name ? Is he racking up another 1000 posts ? Did he decide a 1000 was enough ?
I need to know soon, as he's one of the people that's likely to become anonymous at the next prune, and all his posts will be marked "N/A".
Peter
1970 280SL. Also known as 'admin@sl113.org' and organiser of the Technical Manual (http://www.sl113.org/wiki/pmwiki.php).
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Arthur Dalton is still active on another Mercedes forum http://www.mercedesshop.com/shopforum/index.php , as it seems his interest is more on current models. He is often the last word on this forum, mostly because he has the right answer. But I have also wondered why he left this board.
Best,
g
'64 230sl, fully sorted out...ooops, spoke too soon
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who is A Dalton?
paulr
lovely 1970 280 SL
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quote:
Originally posted by paulr
who is A Dalton?
http://www.sl113.org/forums/pop_profile.asp?mode=display&id=431
Rodd
Pagoda Technical Manual
please contibute: http://www.sl113.org/wiki/pmwiki.php
1966 230SL
2006 C230 Sport Sedan
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Peter, I don't know how many times I've used the search feature with A Dalton as the member. I would hate to see it go away. I feel his contributions to this group are extremely valuable.
1969 280sl 5 spd
Gainesville, Fl.
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quote:
Originally posted by hauser
Peter, I don't know how many times I've used the search feature with A Dalton as the member. I would hate to see it go away. I feel his contributions to this group are extremely valuable.
I received a mail from him that he's not interested in renewing... however, I can sort of fake it so that the system thinks he logged in today. That way he won't be deleted for at least another year or two. Then I -- or my successor -- will need to remember to do this again...
Peter
1970 280SL. Also known as 'admin@sl113.org' and organiser of the Technical Manual (http://www.sl113.org/wiki/pmwiki.php).
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Bwing back ADalton!!
:D
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Here Here!
Bob Smith (Brisbane,Australia)
RHD,1967 early 250 SL, auto
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quote:
Originally posted by vanesp
I received a mail from him that he's not interested in renewing...
We have to renew our Forums membership??
Rodd
Pagoda Technical Manual
please contibute: http://www.sl113.org/wiki/pmwiki.php
1966 230SL
2006 C230 Sport Sedan
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quote:
Originally posted by rwmastel
We have to renew our Forums membership??
Rodd,
I have installed a program that e-mails users who have not been on the site for a long period. I notify them that if they do not revisit the site, their membership will be pruned (prior to archiving of messages). This is to reduce the space used in the database, and to keep our user base realistic. If you visit the site occasionally (say at least once a year) you'll never receive such a notification.
I started off mailing all those users that had not visited us over 1000 days (3 years or so), then archived them after a while. Then 900 days, 800 and so on. I'm at 600 now and will stop at 500 days -- and will repeat that every quarter or so.
As you can imagine, many of these e-mails never arrive... people have moved on, changed their e-mail address. I also know that many of the less active people have forgotten their log-on details and reregistered, some of them 4 times. These all get pruned.
A Dalton's record stuck out, since he had a 1000 posts. All the others had maybe a couple, perhaps 10 or 20, most of them had 0 posts. I then looked for A Dalton's last post, and it was in this thread. I then saw that his message about the 1000th post was indeed the last post, and in fact almost the last visit he paid to the board.
I've since exchanged e-mails with him. He's moved on, and no longer interested in this board. Since people would like to see his name on posts, I've changed his "last visited" date to today in the database, so that he will not get pruned (for another 500 days, that is).
Peter
1970 280SL. Also known as 'admin@sl113.org' and organiser of the Technical Manual (http://www.sl113.org/wiki/pmwiki.php).
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quote:
Originally posted by Benz Dr.
I wish people would stop calling this '' the board '' when it's actually a web site. The board, is in fact the board of directors, of which we have about 10 people.
Not important but I see this all over the place and on other sites as well. It could also be called ' the forum ' but it's certainly not the board which would indicate some sort of office or voting options.
This type of website is often referred to as a message board.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch...
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...or a Discussion Board, or even earlier, a Bulletin Board.
This terminology goes back (at least) to the pre-Internet days of dial-up systems and BBSes. A BBS was typically a server with a bank of modems connected to phone lines sharing a single phone number, and was properly called a Bulletin Board System. BBSes provided many of the services that we now get from the Web, including company tech support and software distribution, as well as community discussions like our board (not to be confused with our Board ;) ).
-David Pease
'66 French 230SL
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As I am from the Bulletin Board days (hey, early 80's) I am showing my age.
Peter
1970 280SL. Also known as 'admin@sl113.org' and organiser of the Technical Manual (http://www.sl113.org/wiki/pmwiki.php).
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It would be a shame if we lost Arthur's posts because I believe he is one of the real experts here - but if I understand correctly this would not happen; just Arthur's identity would be 'lost' but the content would stay?
Cees ("Case") Klumper in Amsterdam
'69 white 280 SL automatic
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Cees,
You are correct. Right-click on this link and open it in a new window or browser tab. You'll get the idea:
http://www.sl113.org/forums/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=2&sortfield=lastpost&sortorder=desc&whichpage=157
Note that when you click on "n/a" you still get that user's profile.
Rodd
Pagoda Technical Manual
please contibute: http://www.sl113.org/wiki/pmwiki.php
1966 230SL
2006 C230 Sport Sedan
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As I wrote in an earlier message:
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however, I can sort of fake it so that the system thinks he logged in today. That way he won't be deleted for at least another year or two. Then I -- or my successor -- will need to remember to do this again...
So "A Dalton"'s name will remain available, and he will not be changed into n/a, for another year or two that is.
Peter
1970 280SL. Also known as 'admin@sl113.org' and organiser of the Technical Manual (http://www.sl113.org/wiki/pmwiki.php).
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Peter:
There are a few contributors whose names lend credibility to the postings. If I see something from Joe Alexander, Klaus Drexl, Achim Alhert, and some others, I know I can rely on the content. I think we will lose something if one of these "special sources" stopped contibuting and their name was reduced to "N/A".
I hope these few can be spared the "name pruning" if they they retire from the site. Arthur Dalton's name should never be removed in my view.
Richard M
Richard M (NYC): 1969 280 SL, Tunis Beige, Euro Model (Italy).
Can be seen at www.panix.com/~rmadison/mercedes.shtml
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Richard,
That's why were working on the Technical Manual... to keep these pearls of wisdom, all collected and put together, edited to be the definitive statement on all things Pagoda. Collecting A Dalton's words of wisdom and moving them over to the correct sections in the Technical Manual would provide a great contribution.
Besides, A Dalton has stopped contributing -- people that continue to contribute will not be "pruned".
However, if we have an exhaustive list (of notable contributors) I'll see if I can change the deletion program to prevent them from pruning, so I, or my successor, cannot accidentally delete them.
Peter
1970 280SL. Also known as 'admin@sl113.org' and organiser of the Technical Manual (http://www.sl113.org/wiki/pmwiki.php).
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Just a thought from another oldtimer that predates even bulletin boards, but you might want to make your trim program so that it only archives people with less than, say 100 posts. Perhaps even a lower threshold like 50.
If the program dumps trace for anybody with more than that, it would give you some leeway about more prolific, and long lost posters.
Dumping that trace to a web page entitled, "missing posters" with whatever contact info you have would give the rest of us a chance to say "hey, I know that guy" and to help get them back into the fold.
The downside to distributed responsibility activities is that too few people are able to stand up and say "heck, why don't I do this...". However, many are able to respond well to requests for help along the lines of "hold this" (or in this case, "find xyz and say hello").
-CTH
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Dear cth350,
what you suggest is in fact easy to do.... however, I'd rather do the dificult thing and ensure we just keep quality posters in place.
It's also easy to post over 100 messages with material that's not worth keeping. Just look at my posts.
So I'd prefer an exhaustive list of vetted and quality posters, that people are interested in reading about in 10 years time.
Peter
1970 280SL. Also known as 'admin@sl113.org' and organiser of the Technical Manual (http://www.sl113.org/wiki/pmwiki.php).