Is posting questions without preview killing you? Have you given up on ever submitting your images because the chances getting the HTML right is just too slim?

If you can see this post, then it means that my little hack works, and you should be able to post questions in this forum at http://cybaea.com/cgi-bin/post-new.pl?FORUM=People+Photography.

At the moment only new questions are supported: you cannot reply to an existing thread. You have to use HTML, there is no support for plain text entries (you need it for those images anyhow). And it kind of sucks to have to go to a different server, but I obviously can't modify Philip's site. I'll fix the memory of your e-mail address and name soon.

In any case I'm hoping that this little service will soon be obsolete by an upgrade of the software on greenspun.com.

Let me know if this is useful...

-- Allan Engelhardt (allane@cybaea.com), March 13, 2000

Answers

Worked perfectly with one hitch. It truncated my subject line. (see "NYC Cops") Very cool though Allan! Thank you for this excellent feature.

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), March 13, 2000.

I forgot to say: don't use double quotes in your subject, e-mail or name fields. I thought of this after I had shut down my laptop. Sorry - I'll see if I can hack around it tomorrow (make that "today" - it's after midnight and I've been in meetings since 8am. I need a new job).

But thanks for trying it out.

-- Allan Engelhardt (allane@cybaea.com), March 14, 2000.

• Fixed problem with double quotes in fields.
• Added complete list of forums to the main PostHack page. (Needs to be tested for forums with "funny" characters in name.)

Posting replies coming soon.

Let me know if you find any problems.

-- Allan Engelhardt (allane@cybaea.com), March 15, 2000.

I didn't really fix problems with double quotes -- I broke the whole mechanism :-(

I'll have a look at it: for now don't use double quotes in your text. I can feel a hairy perl regex coming up....

-- Allan Engelhardt (allane@cybaea.com), April 13, 2000.

I think it works again, with quotes and images and tags and everything. Regexps-R-Us. Let me knwo if you have probs.

The problem with perl is that after a while you don't know what your own code does anymore...

-- Allan Engelhardt (allane@cybaea.com), April 13, 2000.