Discussion Forum

[William LaMartin]

A strange problem has just begun at a FrontPage Discussion Forum at one of
my web sites. When a new post is created, FrontPage adds the content of an
earlier message to the new message.

I though there might be too many messages in the Tocproto.htm, so I removed
all mention of messages before 2004 (although the individual messages still
exist at the site--in fact they are being added to the new postings), but
nothing changed. I have recalculated hyperlinks, but no change.

The problem is at http://www.tpcug.org/discussion_frm.htm .

Has anyone encountered such a problem before?

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

Managing/Deleting/Editing Posts in Discussion Group
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q196/1/26.ASP
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2000/FPDiscmgmt.aspx

 

[William LaMartin]

I believe that just tells how to maintain a Discussion Forum. What I need
to know is how to keep it from adding parts of old messages to new messages.

Anyway, I threw in the towel. I deleted all messages before 2004 (thee were
hundreds of them), caused the tocproto.htm file to be refreshed. Then I
went in a looked closely at the HTML of the tocproto file and corrected a
few problems with the <dd> , <dl> tages, etc. It had somehow become
corrupt.

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

This is a quirk of the FP discussion web. Once it reaches a certain
point/size, it will corrupt itself. Been this way for years.
--
Tom Pepper Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/default.mspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/frontpage
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[Doug Mlodzinski]

Managing/Deleting/Editing Posts in Discussion Group
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q196/1/26.ASP
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2000/FPDiscmgmt.aspx

My personal thanks for these links. I've screwed up more than a few discussion
pages by hit-n-miss editing.

Doug
dougmlod(at)rochester.rr.com
http://home.rochester.rr.com/dougscorner/
www.alliancecollege.com