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DanRRight · Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 5:16 pm Post subject:

i remember there was kind of a pre-forum forum in the end of 90th, much earlier then this one. It had of course different more primitive format. Who is here from this grandpa forum?

JohnCampbell · Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 2615 Location: Sydney

The previous forum was email based, as was Lahey. I kept most of my emails for a long time, until I lost assess to that email address.
It was a good system, getting email updates each morning on arriving at work.
Email spamming put a stop to that and so web based forums became the norm.

As a 10 year review, perhaps the post size limit and ability to do attachments could be addressed. Is phpBB still accessible or has it gone the same path as SimplePlot ?

Silverfrost Forum has been much appreciated and a useful sharing of both FTN95 support issues and also Fortran ideas. Thanks especially should go to Paul, whose efforts have supported the forum so well. Paul, I wonder where you thought this forum would be now, when it started 10 years ago ?

John

PaulLaidler · Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 7:43 am Post subject:

I have to confess that I don't remember much from 10 years back!. Oh dear (now which emoticon should I choose...).

LitusSaxonicum · Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 10:55 am Post subject:

Alas,

The late John Horspool was a regular and most helpful contributor until he passed away from cancer. A most brilliant man.

Eddie

DanRRight · Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 6:56 pm Post subject:

Yes, John was great guy. And the less helpful was the author of Simpleplot who appeared ones per two decades and disappeared: "Hey All, you still remember me? If not, the bugs will remind you"

JohnCampbell · Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 2615 Location: Sydney

Dan,

As we Fortran users grow old, it is not always gracefully. It is probably better to be cautions as some past users reduce their activities. There can be many reasons for their decline and I am hoping to avoid most of them.

I would like to recommend that after 10 years we should review the capabilities of the phpBB forum. I find the post size limitation a real annoyance. Is it possible to increase the post size limit or have the Preview function shade what would be omitted.

John

DanRRight · Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 7:19 am Post subject:

John, The only activity for Simpleplot guys was 5 min job to email 20 years old source code no one here asked them to spend time to debug if they can not. They found time to help school kids to create graphics program by the way which is 10000x more time consuming.

silverfrost · Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 7:42 am Post subject:

rjcp isn't around (Fortran) any more. Martin and Andrew are around although they don't seem to post on the forum.