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Thanks, Sol.

Can you please expand on how the three parameters - access, display, and visible - work.

Dirk

WHat about asking for sponsorship from all members? I imagine that's too complicated.

I'd gladly kick in $20 toward these. One less vitamin supplement for a month isn't going to kill me.

In addition to the above potential forum enhancements, a useful addition would be a keyword field to go along with new threads. Since there are any number of possible keywords of interest to a large site, it should be a text field that accepts comma-separated keywords. I think most people would quickly adapt to a core group of most commonly used keywords on the site and use them as well. And if they are commonly used, in time, it would be possible to add a popup screen to quickly select them, while still allowing everyone to enter custom keywords of their choice. The originator of the thread should be able to edit the keywords at any time, since a thread that generates a lot of interest would probably benefit from adding more keywords for archival purposes. For example, I would use the keyword 4017 on all threads related to my books, regardless of what group I post them in. I could then find them with a quick keyword search.

The keyword feature and quick access to the forum search might help alleviate the pain many of us are still feeling about the lack of a single best place to put our threads and find others.

Thanks.
Dirk

You have a valid point, Linda, and if some of it has to be public, so be it. Buyer beware.

However, we still don't know how to set group access, display, and visibility settings to create a group that is as open as possible to members while keeping the forum private. Sol said the forums can be made private, but the solution he offered didn't work. Several of us have tried. I also couldn't find a definition of access, display, and visibility in the site's help section.

I hope he'll weigh in with a clearer explanation about this.

Based on the discussion, I need to reduce my use of -ing. As Janet Reid has said, I think there's a place for them. Variety, spice of life, etc.

*gets ready to duck*

Thanks to all.
Dirk

LOL. I can't tell if you like them or hate them. However, I freely acknowledge that the preceding sentence doesn't need the first instance of "them."

I can just feel the royalty checks rolling in.

Why?

Imagine the size of the snowplow. 8-)

Thank you, Janet. Have a happy holiday!

Good idea.

During the Carter years, mortgage rates were so high, one couple was featured eating cat food just so they could make their payments. Of course, I don't remember those years personally. According to Amy, I'm much too young for that.