help on discussion group

| LHP-Net Discussion Groups Help on Discussion Groups Browsing Posting messages/responses Searching Icons Deleting
Browsing When you select a discussion group from the LHP discussion home page, or when you choose the discussion button from pages which have an attached discussion group, you will be taken to the "base page" for that discussion. Attached to this base page are responses, organised hierarchically into "Threads". Using the Display Controls, you can decide how lists of messages should be displayed. You can choose to either display just the top level of each thread, or the whole hierarchy. Also, the messages can be embedded one after another, or the threads can be displayed just in outline. To view a particular message, and to respond to that message, click on the message's subject.
Posting messages/responses When viewing the base page of a discussion group, or any of the responses or sub-responses, you can add your own message by clicking "New Message". You are then given a form to fill out with your message, which can either be a URL, plain text (URLs and email addresses which you include will be automatically recognised and converted to links), or full HTML (in which case, make sure to include <br> or <p> line-breaks). When you submit a response to a message, the original sender of the message will receive a copy of your response by email, as will the moderator of the discussion group. Similarly, when someone responds to your message, you will automatically be notified by email. You can also choose an icon to associate with your message to express its contents. Using full HTML, you can even embed images in your message! When you have completed your message, submit it to get a preview of how it will look (to check that any HTML you included has worked), and then approve it and it will be immediately posted to the discussion group. HTML makes it possible for you to incorporate not just links to other sites, but also arbitrary graphics and logos in your messages. Just include a the following text: `<img src="url">` Replace 'url' with the URL of the graphic you would like to include (this can be any graphic which is available on the web). If you are not sure how to use HTML, but would like to learn, a beginner's guide is available online. A very succinct summary of HTML tags is also available.
What do those icons mean? In a sense, the icons can mean whatever you want them to mean, but here is a basic guide.
Sings and their meaning
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Searching Searching functions just as it does on the rest of LHP (see the main help page for details) The discussion groups are reindexed daily, so any new message you add should show up on searches within 24 hours.
Deleting messages Currently only LHP administrators can delete messages. Soon, however, you will be able to delete any messages which you posted yourself.