Thanks for your help in the past with support for adding comment lines when a logger does not support it. It really makes eQSL a superior service. I noticed a news item that popped up when I logged in a few days ago but did not read it, thinking I could do so later. But I can't find a news section on the site. Is there one? Thanks, Bob

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VA3RKM Robert MacKenzie

Hi Bob,

You can find a listing of all the news items that have appeared in 'Site News' at http://www.eqsl.cc/QSLCard/News.cfm

It's listed under 'Miscellaneous' in the right hand pane of the Home Page.

Hope that helps.

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Tim, G4VXE

Probably but I suspect there would be a performance impact of doing this that would slow down everyone's log on. Since, skipping the news items and resetting the last read time is only a matter of clicking the "Continue" button, I wouldn't personally vote for this change.

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73, Rich - W3ZJ

Steve,
Possibly, we will have to let Dave be the judge of that since he is the one who has the intimate knowledge of the database schema and the software that drives it. But, honestly I don't see that there would be enough advantage to it to make it worth while spending any time on it. I have 8 accounts, two of which I access often so they are usually up to date with the news items. The other six are accessed less frequently and sometimes have a fair list of unread news items. However, since that access is infrequent and the time to fix it is inconsequential, I would rather that Dave spend his time on more pressing issues such as the multiple QTH problem which causes us no end of headaches.

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73, Rich - W3ZJ

There are a lot of things that might be improved by a change in the way "attached" accounts are handled. When eQSL.cc was first started, we used the QRZ.com model, where each user was identified simply by his callsign. It was a few years down the road that we realized the flaws in this method of identification:

• Some people have multiple callsigns


• Some callsigns have multiple QTHes at different times


• Some callsigns have multiple owners

We are busy trying to make the necessary adjustments to accomodate all these complications, but it's a non-trivial task. The difficulties manifest themselves in the donations, the postage account, the eAwards, and other areas. Site News is a very small manifestation of the problem. But be assured that we are working on changes to continually improve the system, and eventually we will change the system so that you might log in with a UserName instead of a callsign, the ADIF log uploads might be automatically distributed into the correct account, and things will smooth out quite a bit.

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Of course, that's just my opinion... I could be wrong!

73,
Dave Morris, N5UP
Edited by N5UP Dave Morris on Nov 21, 2005 at 03:41 PM