Posted by Jonathan on August 8, 2004, at 21:52:20
In reply to How to redirect, posted by Dr. Bob on July 27, 2004, at 1:10:28
> 1. Repost the post to a different board ...
Done that:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20040719/msgs/368839.html
(I tacked the repost onto a relevant thread that already existed; this may not be as good as the method Dr. Bob has since recommended, but it's not a fatal error.)
> 2. Post a link to the original board
I hoped that someone reading the above would do this for me, because only newbies, official greeters, Dinah and Dr. Bob can legally post on the original board. No-one has, and the board has archived three times since my post, so I'm repeating my request here on Admin.
> Copy the "your message" URL in the above confirmation.
The URL to copy is that of the link above. You can copy it from the address box near the top of the new browser window which opened when you clicked on that link.
> Go back to the original post.
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/newbs/20040420/msgs/367340.html
> Go to the posting form.
> Don't change "board".
> Add "redirect" or something like that to the subject.
> Explain what you're doing.
> Paste in the URL you copied.
> Post.That's all you have to do to earn my gratitude, and help the original poster and the poster who has replied on the redirected thread to get in touch :)
I hope none of the official greeters, who are doing a great job which I couldn't do, feel that I'm intruding into their territory. It already looked when I posted as if the post I was trying to redirect would never be answered. To the greeters' credit, it's only the second unanswered post in the entire history of the Newbies' Board - the poster of the first found his own way to a more appropriate board.
To the shame of the other nationalities here, none of the six who have volunteered to be greeters lives outside North America; they cannot be expected between them to know the name of every drug in every other country of the world. There are, therefore, likely to be rare occasions like this when someone in the wider Babble community may know how to deal with a post which the greeters have ignored. "Lustral" might sound as if it could belong on the Alternatives Board, but it's just a British name for Zoloft.
I apologize, above all to kate king and JCM, for making such a mess of this redirection and taking so long to put it right; in the future, I shall redirect only where I'm allowed to post on both boards!
Jonathan
poster:Jonathan
thread:371011
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20040717/msgs/375453.html