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Yuck from a UI design perspective. 
If people really can't stand to have their post modified, how about it just converts at display instead and users can turn it on or off as a feature?
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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IMO an automated footnote providing converted equivalent values and units would probably be acceptable even to people that really can't stand to have their post modified, provided the author of the footnote takes full credit for it 
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Oo, ah. What if I am trying to explain that there are 182-degrees C in a circle  .
Did you see that Bruce Willis movie called "The Whole 8.2296 Meters?"
Winnie the Pooh sings, "Deep in the 40.4685642 hectares wood where Christoper Robin plays..."  .
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It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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Probably because it was deemed as "crap" by the people that reviewed it. You may have received a couple of email notices concerning the crappiness.
"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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It would be great If you can provide tool tip on article title in
Latest Recommendations section of member profile. Title text is wrapping after some character . So Is it possible to give a tool tip ?
Thanks in advance
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I've extended the length of the title shown.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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That's Cool 
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Chris I don't think the email option is working on messages, you know right of reply. I have used it 3 time with no replies I have since confirmed that no email was sent.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Works for me
Check your spam and/or filters
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The mail would have been going out from CP so my filters would not be an issue. The recipients get the email notification from the reply being posted on the messageboards but do not get the email sent via the email option on the message.
I will attempt to send an email from the previous message and see if you get it!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I have sent you an email some 2 hours ago, using the Email button under your top message in this thread.
Did you get it?
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Nope, this message only!
I wonder if it is in the current bug list - I have not read it
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Email is incredibly unreliable. All I can suggest is you check your spam filters. Sorry!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Email is incredibly unreliable
I can understand that, I just thought some people were being incredibly rude by not replying, then I thought about who I had sent the emails to and decided to further investigate.
Possibly a disclaimer warning of the unreliability (it may be there already and I missed it)
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Chris,
when some one replies with a public message to one of our messages, an e-mail notification gets sent;
this works fine.
when some one replies with an e-mail to one of our messages (using the Email button under the message), those e-mail messages seem not to work at all this week.
I got dozens of the first kind (and I do not recall a single reply message that wasn't signaled also by an e-mail notification); I also got none of the second kind, even when I e-mailed to myself for testing.
I am aware you could be (probably are) using a different sender and different code, but I checked
my filters and my SPAM box, there is nothing wrong here.
Could you please test the functionality again, there must be more to it than just "Email is incredibly unreliable". If you can't find anything wrong at your end, I suggest you use as much as possible the same sender name and the same technology so it either all works or all fails.
If we can't get the Email button to work reliably, I suggest:
- either you provide feedback, so the sender knows it succeeded or failed (assuming failure would be
the exception); I am willing to wait up to 30 seconds for a confirmation or an error notice,
anything is better than this week's results;
- or you just remove the button (when it systematically doesn't work).
Regards
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I noticed something similar a few weeks ago. Nick Butler and I tried using the email function to exchange addresses without success even though we both were receiving email notifications to posts.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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I've been complaining on this issue already. It works for some and doesn't work for others.
I don't have a spam filter or any such thing and I'll be happy if Chris could look into this and resolve it. I remember people complaining about ignoring their emails* sent via the "email" option here.
*And I ask them "which email"...
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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The email system is working, but actually ensuring the emails make it to your server after they have left ours is, unfortunately, beyond our control.
I've opened a bug entry to double check everything, but a quick test shows it's working fine for me.
I'm sorry I can't press the 'Fix this Bug' key for you this time 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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The temptation is to click email instead of reply but I will refrain. I'm happy to assume until I next actually need it.
Thank you
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It'd be cool if at the top of each forum you listed the MVPs for that forum. I see all these MVPs but don't know for what...
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