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The oval image above is a screen shot from the list of forums. From there, you can click on the words in red to edit your profile, to register, to change your preferences, to read the FAQ, and to perform two kinds of searches. Or you can click on the word Lobby (in red on the actual screen) to return to this page, where you can learn more about these services.
The #1 question | how do I register?
The #2 question | what do I do if I lose my UserName or password?
Tip | To search a web page, select Find from your browser's Edit menu.
Your user profile includes your UserName, your password, and some brief information you chose to disclose when you registered. At any time, you may edit your profile. Click profile here or on any Bistro page where you see it on the upper right. See the Bistro Lobby screen shot above.
First, you'll identify yourself by typing your UserName and password. Then you'll see a screen formatted like the registration screen depending on the width of your browser window.
Yes. From a different email address, register again and stop using the old one.
From the same email address, email report@toLearn.net and ask to have the UserName associated with that address deleted. After you hear by email that the old name was deleted, you can register again.
Yes. Click profile here or at the top of any Bistro page. See the Bistro Lobby screen shot above.
First, you'll identify yourself by typing your UserName and old password.
Yes. Click profile here or at the top of any Bistro page. See the Bistro Lobby screen shot above.
First, you'll identify yourself by typing your user name and password. You will then see the information you entered on the registration screen. You may change any profile or preference information except your UserName and your status.
After you post forty messages, your status will automatically change from junior member to member. This policy intends to encourage posting.
If you want to host or co-host a forum and get Backstage privileges, please email one of the proprietors.
Anyone, whether registered or not, may read messages, view profiles, and search.
Members may reply to messages, start new topics, and edit their own messages. They may also set their own preferences and profile information.
Hosts are members who can edit or delete any message in their forums. They also may take some responsibility for moving a discussion along. For example, they may close a thread or post an announcement. If you have a problem or question about a specific forum, ask the host first.
Proprietors are members who are responsible for every aspect of the Bistro's content as well as its look and feel. Please email a proprietor if you feel as though a message needs to be edited because it violates privacy or copyright or if you have a problem or suggestion that a forum host can't help you with.
Yes, you may modify two preferences at any time. The Bistro doesn't remember these preferences on the server. Instead, it sets a cookie on your PC or laptop's hard drive, which reminds the Bistro who you are each time you visit.
Click preferences (or "prefs") here or on any Bistro page where you see it on the upper right. See the Bistro Lobby screen shot above.
First, you'll identify yourself by typing your UserName and password. Then you'll see a screen formatted like this depending on the width of your browser window.
1) As a registered Bistro member, you may store your UserName and password for up to one year. This will prevent you from having to type your user name and password every time you post a message.
2) You also have the option of changing the topic view, the default number of days to view recently posted messages. For example, if you set it to 20, it will display messages from only the previous twenty days.
3) If your email address is not viewable, you will retain that much privacy.
Ground Zero Bistro uses cookies to remember the following information:
the last time you logged in (so that it can display the yellow light
bulbs for forums with new messages)
your user name and
password
your preferred topic view
These cookies are text files that are stored in
the browser cache on your PC or laptop. No cookies are used to track your
movement or perform any other function other than enhance your use of the
Bistro. If your browser does not support cookies, or you have not enabled
cookies in your browser, these time-saving features will not work and any
preferences you set will be ignored.
To check your browser's cookie status, select Edit | Preferences in Netscape Navigator or View | Options in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Usually on your PC or laptop's C: drive, you'll find the cookies that you have accepted through:
Navigator look in
Program Files | Netscape | Users directory under your user name's cache
Internet Explorer look in
Windows | Temporary Internet Files directory; sort by type of file
Note that the cookie files are text files. They are very small, often several hundred bytes. Open a cookie file in Notepad and check it out for yourself. Here's one from mine, in its entirety.
lastLogin
2452119.0738
riccistreet.net/cgi-bin/bistro/
0
4178711168
29505067
2158719968
29431642
*
LastLoginDT
07-28-2001%2007%3A38%20AM
riccistreet.net/cgi-bin/bistro/
0
4178711168
29505067
2161519968
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Note the date and time in the line with the %.
For more, try Cookie Central.
Click password here or on the pages that ask you to type in your user name and password. Bistro will send your user name and password to your email address of record, that is, the address you gave when you first registered. If that account isn't available, please register again.
Members may reply to messages, start new topics, edit their own messages, and search. They may also set preferences and profile information. Junior members have posted fewer than thirty messages. Members have posted at least thirty messages.
Hosts are members who can edit, delete, or prune any message in their forums. They also may take some responsibility for moving a discussion along. If you have a problem or question about a specific forum, ask the host first.
Proprietors are members who are responsible for every aspect of the Bistro's content as well as its look and feel. Please email a proprietor if you feel as though a message needs to be edited because it violates privacy or copyright or if you have a problem or suggestion that a forum host can't help you with.
One kind of search is so common that it has its own link. Take a look at the Lobby screen shot below. By clicking the red words "today's active topics," you'll see a listing of all the messages posted within the last 24 hours.
For a more general search, you can search the rest of Ricci Street. Click "search" on the top right navigation bar. In the screen shot below, you'll find it between "Bistro" and "sitemap".
To search just the Bistro messages, click search here or on any Bistro page where you see it on the upper right. On the Bistro Lobby screen shot above, it is to the left of Matteo Ricci's hat. After you click that "search", you'll see a screen formatted like this depending on the width of your browser window.
You may search for specific messages based on a word or words found in the messages, by forum, by date, and by author's UserName.
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