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Anyone can read the Bistro forums. You must register only if you want to reply to a message or start a new topic.
Click register here or on any Bistro page where you see it in the Lobby (upper right) along with four other options: profile, prefs, faq, and search.
When you click the register option, you will get a screen about twice the size of the screen shot below formatted to the width of your browser window.
Bistro requires only a UserName and email address. The other responses become your user profile and preferences.
Only once unless you want to change your UserName or email address. If you try to register every time you want to post a message, you'll see a screen saying that name is already used. And it is ... by you.
Yes, but not from the same email address.
The software underlying Ground Zero Bistro can handle heavy traffic from all over the world. It is, however, intended for the Medaille College community. We set the registration scripts to assign new users an encrypted password and to send it to their email address. By clicking on profile, you can then change the password to something easier to remember.
Note that one email address, one user name, and one password are all associated. If you want another UserName, please re-register.
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Please enter the email address that will become the address of record for the Bistro. This address causes more problems than all the other problems combined. Some common solutions:
Please type your email address with the exact upper and lower case
characters. On the Internet at large, email addresses are not
case-sensitive. The Bistro script is running on a server using the Linux
operating system, however, and it is case-sensitive.
Do not leave spaces anywhere, regardless of what your internal email
system at work will allow.
Remember to finish the address with the full domain name of your ISP,
be it a company, home, or employer. Don't forget the .edu or .com or .net.
When you first register, the Bistro will send a random, hard-to-remember password to the email address that you provide. You should use it to log on the first time and change the password to something you will remember. Note that passwords are case-sensitive.
Click password here or on the pages that ask you to type in your UserName and password. Bistro will send your UserName 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.
Bistro users are sometimes curious about who is posting messages. Whether or not they are registered members, they can view your profile, which is the information that you choose to reveal when you register. See the registration screen above. In the middle, it asks five questions.
Where do you live?
What's your job?
Do you have your own web site?
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
What's your AIM user name or ICQ number?
You can determine what your profile says to other users by filling in the boxes next to these questions. You may leave any or all of them empty, at your discretion.
After you have established this profile, you can change it at any time by clicking the profile link here or in the Lobby.
See the registration screen above. At the bottom, it has four options.
If you choose, each of your messages can automatically have a signature appended to it. It can be as formal as your name and job title. It can be as informal as your nickname. It can include a pithy quotation or a link to your personal web site. The signature will appear only at the end of the messages you select at the time you post the message.
Frequently, the Bistro asks you to identify yourself. For example, you cannot reply to a message without giving that information. Retyping it can become a nuisance. By selecting the Yes option here, the Bistro will deposit a cookie, a small text file, onto your computer's hard drive. The cookie will automatically finish your UserName once you type the first letter and supply your password (as asterisks) once you put your cursor in that box.
When you visit a forum, it will show messages from the last X number of days. You can set the number of days though you can easily change this preference if not enough messages or too many are showing by default. You can also change the number of days for each forum each time you visit without affecting this preference.
When others are reading your messages, do you want your email address viewable to them? If so, select the Yes option.
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