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Chris Maunder wrote: It's the email sending thing that's the trick
Yes i agree, thats why i said that while you guys try to build an email notification system maybe something like that would do (as a temp arrangement).
Chris Maunder wrote: hammer to fasten a screw
Whats wrong with that hammer the screw hard and it goes right in (who cares about unscrewing it) 
I don't think, therefore I am not? 
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some kind of icon notification against the list of articles in the bookmark?
-Prakash
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What's wrong with a simple RSS feed for each article? 
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Hi Chris,
I am not getting any emails from CP, none of Jordan's newsletters, not the weekly CP newsletter, no reply notifications from my messages, and not any direct email replies to my messages. I turned off the spam filter in my email account so the volume of emails I get is way up, but still nothing from CP. I double checked my CP account settings and the email address I have entered there for reply messages and newsletters is correct.
Hope you can fix this soon, or give me an idea where I can look if the problem is on my end.
Thanks.
You may be right
I may be crazy
-- Billy Joel --
Within you lies the power for good, use it!!!
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Last week we were placed on some spam blacklists, partly because our exchange server had a small naming conflict that caused every mailserver in the world to instantly distrust us (guys! C'mon! It's us - remember us??  ), and partly because people feel it's more entertaining to report us to their ISP instead of clicking the unsubscribe link at the end of the newsletter.
We're seeing things working better this week so cross your fingers.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Well, I recieved this one, and also the Code Project offers email so things are looking better. I'll keep my fingers crossed that things get back to normal now
You may be right
I may be crazy
-- Billy Joel --
Within you lies the power for good, use it!!!
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fyi, The c++ link on the header toolbar is not working for me, it takes me back to the home page.
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Yeah, the same for me. The [MFC/C++] link.
Maxwell Chen
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The MFC/C++ link on the left? It's meant to: it sets your global settings for the site and takes you back to the homepage to show you the articles relevant to your newly chosen category
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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oops, I thought it was a shortcut to the forum
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1. that you (at least the person who submitted the article) can see how many times a copy of your stuff has been downloaded. I say this because I know that even I (yes, me) forget to rate an article or leave a comment, even though I download the source code that usually tends to help me a lot. It's great to know I've got a good rating on an article, but it would really make me feel good and want to write the next article if I saw that x amount of people have actually downloaded it.
2. (not sure how the math behind this would go). A way to rate an article again. For instance, I see an article with a nice concept and not enough source code - I rate it a 3. A week later because of comments pertaining to lack of source code, the author updates it with great source code and explanations for all - the rating in my head is now a 4, but I can't change it.
Just my 1.39 cents. How does anyone else feel?
-- moved by ed. at 17:48 Tuesday 1st August, 2006
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BlackDice wrote: A way to rate an article again.
I think that's a great idea!
PS: Better to post site suggestions here[^].
/ravi
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Both will be done.
#1 is tricky because we don't have an easy way to backdate prior download info. We can do it but with roughly 50Gb of logs per month for 6 years it will take about 3,761 years to process in order to get an accurate count. Or we could just take a wild guess for those articles already up
#2 is easy.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Great, Chris. Thanks!!
BTW, where did you come up with the number 3,761?
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You can guess
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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it's called a WAG...
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: WAG...
The abbreviation WAG, to me, means Wives and Girlfriends. However, it doesn't really fit in this context.
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Wild Ass Guess is my WAG.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book,
only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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Chris, is it generally acceptable to link the source & demo ZIP from your own domain if you want to see the number of downloads?
"Nothing ever changes by staying the same." - David Brent (BBC's The Office) ~ ScrollingGrid: A cross-browser freeze-header control for the ASP.NET DataGrid
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No, because almost 100% of all outside links to downloads that we've had on CodeProject break within 6 months. We require all articles to provide a local download so that no matter what happens a version of the download is always available.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Of course now we're all dying to know whether there's actually a formula used to generate that number, or if you just scribbled some bogus numbers on a napkin and multiplied...
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I think both of these would be very useful. #2 especially - I have seen authors improve their articles, and I could not upgrade the vote I gave.
For #1, it would be useful even if you started the count from 0 today, for all articles. Maybe at some future time, when you've added more servers, and CP is just too fast, you can run your log-diving batch and get the true count.
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And you'd only spend 3.761 years tweaking the script... 
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??? - I'm still bugging you!! 
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