[Info-vax] new HP OpenVMS public forum now live

[Paul Sture]

In article <iula9d$hrd$1 at news.albasani.net>,
 Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:

> Paul Sture wrote 2011-07-01 17:22:
> > In article<iuk98k$5qa$1 at news.albasani.net>,
> >   Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> They have probably *not* done any conversion at the time of the
> >> migration. The mapping of ":P" to the img-tag is done at display
> >> time by the server on-the-fly. The stored content is still ":P".
> >>
> >> This is absolutely 100% standard forum functionallity today.
> >>
> >
> > Yes, but other forum software I use allows you to mark text to be
> > displayed "as is" - cf the HTML<pre>  and</pre>  tags.
> >
> > I can't find that option if I try a reply on the new HP forum.
> >
> 
> Usualy something like [code]...[/code] or similar.
> Or [quote]...[/quote] if you do not want a fixed space font.
> 
> But that is, of course, used for larger chunks of text, not
> a single 2-char sequence like ":P".

I'm familiar with those (they are used by vBulletin).

>From the help on posting I don't see mention of any markup language:

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/help/faqpage/faq-category-id/posting#posting

what I do see there of course is an icon at the bottom of the page 
"Powered by Lithium".  Clicking on that takes us to

http://www.lithium.com/

which is a product designed for social networking and brand building 
rather than a product designed for technical support.

What was I saying about welcome to the Facebook generation? :-(

The sad thing is that someone somewhere will be patting themselves on 
the back for choosing that.

-- 
Paul Sture