That all makes sense. Particularly given that the business voice and fax lines are VAT-recoverable and tax-deductible, we are talking of far from a fortune, so I think there is a limit to how far it would be worth going in search of 'clever' alternatives!
A condition of contract with the company near me is that you will allow your receiver to be used as a transmitter if required. They had hoped to mesh the network for redundancy, but this hasn't happened. If a relay goes down, you loose a huge chunk. Some relays are powered by car batteries due to location, and these seem to fail the most.
Ah - no contractual obligation here, but I believe that one gets a reduction in subscription if one is being used as a relay point.
I believe that those within a village who are working through a local relay (which involves omnidirectional antennae) enjoy some degree of network redundancy. However, those (like me) who are communicating directly with a remote location are using highly directional antennae, hence presumably precluding any alternative routing.
That's where that screw needed to go! It fell out when I took it out of the van, and cos it had the lid on I couldn't see one missing. It's in the racking somewhere.
That's often the case - but it seems as if the mods do not have the ability to split threads - or, at least, choose not to use the facility.
Thanks. I've brought this issue to the mods' attention again. When I did so in the past, I was told that the old software didn't allow for ('easy' or at all) thread splitting - so maybe things can now change.
If that's so, I think that's a pity. Although I'm often involved in, and not infrequently am 'responsible for', many of the 'tangents', I would prefer them to be separated. In the distant past when I had 'moderator powers' (not that we called it that) in forums, much of the work involved was in editing, splitting, and sometimes even combining, threads - so I would personally tend to think of it as "part of the job"!.
It wasn't - but it was accepted as a major part of the job. Mind you, my experience was mainly in the 80s and early/mid 90s (i.e. a lot actually pre-dating 'the Internet'), and I would hope that the available software tools will have improved dramatically since then!
Yea this software is super simple (there's a demo on the XenForo website), there's tick boxes on each post, and you just check the posts you want to move, hit move and then the pop up I posted lets you choose what to do with the selected posts
Sounds great - and much easier than in the dark ages. In that case, it sounds as if "they have no excuse"
Other than the fact it happens in EVERY thread.....Sounds great - and much easier than in the dark ages. In that case, it sounds as if "they have no excuse"
It does sometime feel like that but, in reality, it happens in a 'serious' fashion in only a minority of cases. Of the 100 most recent threads, only 17% got beyond 2 pages and 65% did not get beyond the first page.
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