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| AVSIG is the oldest online aviation forum in the
world, founded in 1981. We've been here for your airborne safety, knowledge, and
just plain love of aviation for over a quarter century! AVSIG is member
supported, however you may register a Username and post messages without becoming a
paid member (approximately half of our discussion and library sections are visible to
non-AVSIG members). Please drop by our 25th Anniversary Pages for the complete
AVSIG story as we know it to-date.
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| Registering a Username gives you two advantages
over lurking anonymously on AVSIG: 1. You will be able to
post messages and become part of the greatest aviation discussion community on the web
and,
2. You will be able to edit your profile and personal control panel
to customize your view of the forum, message filtering, and post tracking.
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| The first e-mail address you register is used
for e-mail notifications, forum subscriptions, and to e-mail your password. The second
(optional) e-mail address you register is what other users see when they view your
profile. |
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| If you'd like to participate as a logged-in
user, yes. Cookies are used to track your Username/Password and new posting activity. |
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| If you have registered an account (Username) on
AVSIG, please login to customize your view of the forum and activate message tracking. To
login, please click the "Login" link in the upper-left corner of any AVSIG forum
screen. This link will take you to a page where you can enter your Username and Password.
(Please keep in mind that your password is case-sensitive). If you have any private messages waiting you'll see a flashing envelope at
the top left of the menu bar upon login. You can now enter the main forum area by clicking
the "Main Index" link at the top of the page. This will list all AVSIG public
message sections for you if you are a public guest and all public and member sections if
you are an AVSIG Member.
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This checklist may help you successfully login:
1) Make sure you are entering your password correctly. Passwords are case-sensitive.
2) Ensure that your browser supports cookies; if so, check the security level you are
using. High levels of security restriction in certain browsers will automatically reject
cookies. In order to use the key features of these forums, you'll need to accept cookies.
3) Completely logout by hitting the Logout link on the page, and then log back in again.
4) After logging in, you may have to hit the reload/refresh button on your Web browser to
expedite the authentication.
5) If these steps don't work you can try purging your cookies from this site using the My Cookies tool.
6) If you continue to have problems, go to the login page. Enter your Username in the
Username field and click the "I forgot my password" button. A temporary password
will be generated and emailed to the email address used for the account setup. You MUST
enter your Username in the Username field before you use this feature.
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It's a system-generated User Title. Paid AVSIG
members display "AVSIG Member" or "Top Gun" (forum award). Free
guest users, which have access to limited forum content, display "Public Guest."
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No problem. We'll mail a temporary
password to you. Please visit the AVSIG login page and enter your Username in the
Username field, then click the button marked "I forgot my password." A
temporary password will be e-mailed to the primary e-mail address you registered when
joining AVSIG.
This process is safe because the password is only e-mailed to the original owner of the
account. |
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You may change your AVSIG password at any time.
Please click the "My Home" option found on any page, then click on
"Personal Information, email, password." To change your password, simply edit
the password and verify password fields on this page. Once you have entered the new
password, click "Submit" to save the information. (Keep in mind that passwords
are case-sensitive).
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| To add an image to an AVSIG posting you may
upload a .jpg or .gif file (under 300k) as a file attachment to your post, then: 1. Post the message.
2. Click the "Attachment" link in your displayed message
to reveal the URL assignment on our server.
3. Copy the URL displayed in Step 2. 4. Edit your message
(15-minute limit) to insert the image via the "Image" option in the UBB Code
box.
You may also insert an image from a third-party server using the
"Image" option from the UBB Code box when making your post or use the following
Markup Tag:
[image]http://www.url_to_image.com/image_name.gif[/image]
For example, if you have an image called cateye.gif and it's available from your own
website at http://www.mywebsite.com/pics, then you would use the following image markup:
[image]http://www.mywebsite.com/pics/cateye.gif[/image]
Please limit image width to 700 pixels to avoid stretching the
thread window into horizontal scrolling.
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| AVSIG forum rules can be
found in the New User
Agreement with expansion in this FAQ (Expansion on AVSIG Posting Policies
below) |
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Click the "My Home" link on the menu
bar. At the bottom of the next screen you will see options for editing your profile.
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| You can customize AVSIG's look and feel, specify
how many posts you view per page, whether or not you want to view user pictures alongside
posts, and much more. Once saved, these become your default settings. You may edit these
preferences at any time. |
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| You can use AVSIG's in-house "Search"
function, but to be blunt, our built-in "Search" script isn't that good.
The quickest, best way to search public AVSIG messages is via Google. Just type in
the search keywords along with the term "aero-farm" and you will get a complete
list of all current and cached AVSIG posts that answer the criteria. Note that AVSIG
forum posts are purged at 365 days to keep things speeding along ... another reason to use
Google, since public posts that are expired in the local forum are cached and available
for as long as Google maintains them. |
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| It means that you have unread Private Messages.
You may retrieve them via your "My Home" control panel. |
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'N' denotes an unread message.
'R' denotes a message that you've replied to.
A space denotes a message that's been read but not replied to. |
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| Users can edit their own posts up to 15 minutes
after they are made. Where the change is substantive, you should mark the post as edited
so as to alert viewers to the changed content. For cosmetic changes it's better not to do
so. |
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| Please use the "Contact Us" link and
provide the message subject, current forum message area, and destination forum message
area. |
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The following UBB Code tags are available for
your use to
[b] text [/b] = Makes
the given text bold.
[email] joe@email.com [/email]
= Makes the given email address clickable.
[i] text [/i] = Makes
the given text italic.
[code] text [/code] =
Surrounds the given text with pre tags.
[quote] text [/quote] =
Surrounds the given text with blockquote and hr's. This UBBCode tag is used for quoting a
reply.
[url] link [/url] =
Makes the given url into a link.
[url=link] title [/url]
= Makes the given title into a hyperlink pointing to link.
[list]
[*]Item 1
[*]Item 1
[/list] = Makes a bullet list. [list=A] or [list=1] will make order/numbered lists.
[color:red] text [/color] =
Makes the given text red.
[color:#00FF00] text [/color]
= Makes the given text green.
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| TapUBB
is time-traveling software. With it you can take AVSIG's WYSIWYG UBB web forum and
shoot yourself straight back to scrolling-text terminal mode 1987, give or take. (If
you don't know what "WYSIWYG" means it's best not to take this time-hopping
trip. Everything really was harder back then ... trust us). If you are
one of the original character-based online forum pioneers and you hate the speed and
navigation complication of modern web forums, TapUBB
may prove to be the download of your recent online life. Longtime AVSIG member Bob
Dubner forewent food, sleep, and Oprah for several weeks back in 2004 to port the
grand-old-on-its-way-to-defunct TapCIS forum message automation program to AVSIG's new UBB
web forum installation, assuring that the speed and efficiency of the world's premier
offline forum reader continued to survive as an interface
option on AVSIG. Bob's TapUBB port
works only with AVSIG, and it can only be downloaded (in case you do understand what
"WYSIWYG" means but don't know what those fancy new hyperlinks are) at: http://www.dubner.com/tapubb/ |
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