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Newsgroups: fcps.Admin
Subject: Welcome
From: Admin FCPSForum <fcpsforum@juno.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 13:22:00 -0500

Welcome to the Comments.ComUNOFFICIAL F C CProducts and Services User Comments Forum

Hmmm.. F C C could stand for the Federal Communications Commision, or Franklin Covey Company, or frequently cripples computers. One or both of the second two seem more likely, though.

You will find that this topic just begs for the use of acronyms and you can find them HERE .

Again, welcome to the "FCPS" Forum and feel free to post your comments.

We have pretty much finished establishing the new conferences and structure of this forum. Please feel free to recommend changes or new conferences.

At current, NEITHER this site NOR the admin(s) are associated with Franklin Covey.

The current Admin(s) are just long time user(s) of their Planner and Planner support software.

#1 rule. Read the TOS.
#2 rule. No profanity and must be civil.
#3 rule. Keep it impersonal and on-topic.
#4 rule. If not covered by 1-3, not any:
unless someone does something to make us create one!

Most of the products and services discussed in this conference are the registered trade names, trade marks, and or service marks of the Franklin Covey Company.

Palm Pilot/Palm IIIx/Palm OS - 3Com Corporation or its subsidiaries
Visor/Visor Deluxe - Handspring
TRGpro - TRG Products, Inc

FCPS Admin volunteer

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Subject: IMPORTANT: Use this to Create a Login
From: Admin FCPSForum <fcpsforum@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 21:06:00 -0500

Because Comments.com has changed to Complaints.com and uses a different userid database, you need to use the following link if you are a Guest and want to create a Login ID for this forum.

FCPS Admin volunteer
This message's contents are copyrighted by Comments.com

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Subject: FC Products & Services User's Forum
From: Complaints.com Manager <matthew.smith@complaints.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 04:23:00 -0500

I've enjoyed tracking Coe's administrative and 'spiritual' leadership of this FC Products & Services User's Forum.

In response to Coe's demonstrated success with this forum, this forum has a new, dedicated, home page. This page will hopefully help even more users of FC Products & Services to more easily locate, and benefit from, this significant forum.

http://www.fcproductsservices.com

This page (site) and this forum are at the disposal of Coe and all FC Products & Services users. Please give me criticisms, and advise what changes I should implement to help support the head admin (Coe) and the ability of this forum to help its users.

Matt Smith

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Subject: NNTP access has a problem....
From: Admin FCPSForum <fcpsforum@juno.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:25:00 -0500

If the message you are trying to access has html tags in the message poster's signature, you will get an error when trying to retrieve that message.

The newsreader will show the proper directory of messages and the correct status of new or old, you just cannot access ones with html content in the poster's profile signature, whether the message actually contains html or not.

The problem was discovered with some implementations of WebBoard and the fix is being looked into.

Sorry for the inconvenience, we hope to have it corrected soon.

FCPS Admin volunteer
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Subject: NNTP access has a problem....
From: Complaints.com Manager <matthew.smith@complaints.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 06:13:00 -0500

Ok, so the NNTP software needs to be updated.

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Subject: NNTP access has a problem....
From: Coe CWCJr <cwcjunior@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 07:00:00 -0500

Matt;

Moved it here. Not a big deal, just needed an 'announcement' that the problem was known and people that tried to retrieve via NNTP would have a problem with some messages.

(Since this profile has html in the signature that I do not want to give up, and I have historically posted most of the messages, that's most of them.)

While just one opinion among many, I hope this information was helpful...
Coe

**Not associated with Franklin Covey**
FQ DayPlanner:'92 Ascend/FPS (4.0-6.1/7.3(3/8)):'93
PPPro:'97 2MB/IR Upgrade '99, Palm IIIc:'00 FPO (1.1-1.4):'00 DayTracker/FPC:'00
I can also be found hanging around the sites listed and hotlinked in my profile.
I retain the Copyright to all my posts and emails. Copyright Myths exposed.

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Subject: NNTP access has a problem....
From: Coe CWCJr <cwcjunior@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 07:03:00 -0500

Topic:
Bug # 967 NNTP fails if message has HTML (2 of 2), Read 1 times
Conf:
Bug Reports
From:
Matt Sergeant wbnntp@sergeant.org
Date:
Thursday, September 28, 2000 01:57 AM

This was fixed in one of the earlier NNTP
hotfixes. Which version of NNTP are you
using? You can find out by telnetting to port
119 of the server running NNTP (and then just
type QUIT).

While just one opinion among many, I hope this information was helpful...
Coe

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Subject: site down today from 4:00 pm CST to 9:30 pm CST
From: Site Manager <manager@comments.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 22:56:00 -0500

The site down today, from 4:00 pm CST to 9:30 pm CST, due to lost internet connectivity (circuit was down). Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Subject: Calling for INPUT
From: Coe CWCJr <cwcjunior@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 07:12:00 -0500

As once stated by a robot in Short Circuit, Help, I need input! More Input.

I am going to add some (or at least one) Non-FC related or FC-alternative conference. If you have any preferences for the reorganization of this forum, please post them in the Open Forum.

"Datebk4 with Outlook"

While just one opinion among many, I hope this information was helpful...
Coe

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Subject: WebBoard v4.2 upgrade completed for this site
From: Complaints.com Manager <matthew.smith@complaints.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 16:51:00 -0500

You may have noticed the long overdue upgrade to v4.2, which occurred May 10. Hopefully it went ok.

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Subject: One Canadian's View
From: Coe CWCJr <cwcjunior@juno.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:58:00 -0500

This is from a Canadian Broadcast from 1973. It seems appropriate to say again.
America: The Good Neighbor.

Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his broadcast.

"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth.

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.

When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.

When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.

The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.

I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes?

Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles.

You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several times - and safely home again.

You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here. When the railways of France,* Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.

I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."

Stand proud, America!

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Subject: This WebBoard Forum to end
From: Coe CWCJr <cwcjunior@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 06:53:00 -0500

For a myriad of reasons, but mainly because Matt said so, this forum will end soon. I want to thank all of you for your support of this forum and its sponsors.

It is with great regret that this forum was ever needed and even greater regret that the quality of the products it discusses have not improved since its creation.

I will try to keep you informed on what is happening, Matt has offered me several options. Any input you would like to make would be welcome. Please use Open Forum.

Again, thanks

While just one opinion among many, I hope this information was helpful...
Coe

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Subject: my letter to coe sent via email on Sept. 19, 2001
From: Complaints.com Manager <matthew.smith@complaints.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 11:42:00 -0500

Coe,

We have a problem that we need to discuss.

I'm sorry, but I'm going to need the hardware your forum is running on. I've got a 6,000 box (cost two years ago) running nothing but WebBoard for this forum.

How is it possible to transition this forum to your control, maintenance, your own server, internet connectivity, etc., physically out of my location.

The data in the FC forum is of course yours. You have spent countless hours working on it, and appear to enjoy it. That's great.

I'll give you the entire copy of WebBoard, running this forum. And the domain if you want it. But I need the box. And I don't know how to extract the forum contents from this server (and the data stored in SQL 7) and 'send' it to you.

The fact it, it costs me $ 20.00 per month in electricity to run this box and forum. The box is a Compaq proliant 1600, dual pentium 450 raid 5 server with five hot pluggable drives, redundant power supplies, fans, nics, with 650 mb in memory. An electricity hog.

It's not worth it for me to have it stripped down, reload software, etc. to make it better just to run just this forum with lower overhead. It would still be a big security risk, stripped down.

I need this box for an index server for Complaints.com.

I'm having my network re-designed, reconfiguring firewalls, etc. and so I've got to make decisions. Currently, this box represents a significant security risk to my network, as it sits now, as it was set up incorrectly to begin with. To make it safe for my network would cost me money. Due to the current security risk, I need it out of here ASAP.

I imagine you have been waiting for this day. I've tried to be as generous as possible with your forum, which I was happy to do, as it was 'only' about a 250.00 per year decision. Now the cost of keeping the forum here for me is much higher.

Please give me your thoughts.

Matt

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Subject: warning
From: Complaints.com Manager <matthew.smith@complaints.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:57:00 -0500

I'm sorry, but this forum will be shut down shortly. It is too expensive for me to continue hosting this forum, under my new set of circumstances. I feel badly. Matt.

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Subject: Stand-By, Archiving...
From: Coe CWCJr <cwcjunior@juno.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 21:43:00 -0500

In order to facilitate the shut down without loss of the information that was posted, I must edit all posters profiles that have HTML code in their signatures. It will not affect pre-existing posts, but, will allow NNTP to download the messages.

Coe

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Subject: Stand-By, Archiving...
From: Complaints.com Manager <matthew.smith@complaints.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 04:25:00 -0500

So, it's now ok to shut this forum down? Please confirm.

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Subject: Thanks Matt!
From: Admin FCPSForum <fcpsforum@juno.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 08:30:00 -0500

Matt;

On behalf of myself, all the subscribers, and the FC personnel that GUEST 'ed in (aren't the access IP logs wonderful - and big brotherish) I want to extend a sincere thanks for your tolerance and support in hosting this forum.

While the USER's TODAY does not accurately reflect the number of people that actually visit the site (GUESTS), it has been less than 'busy' and certainly not worth the expense for you to continue it.

It did have an impact and provided support to many users that emailed me, rather than post. Unfortunately TPTB at FC never saw fit to treat their software customers with the same openness, respect, and integrity that they espouse in their literature. The products' bugs and their failure to accurately locate and fix the problems has severely hurt the products' abilities to live up to the potential that they had.

Best of luck with your other ventures! I might be interested is staying involved with your organization, (hint hint) so just ask if I can help.

BTW: What are you planning on doing to/with the URL www.fcproductsservices.com ?

Thanks, again.
Coe

Everyone, please support our (former) sponsor. Other than my time, he charged us nothing!
http://www.complaints.com

FCPS Admin volunteer

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Subject: Thanks Matt!
From: Complaints.com Manager <matthew.smith@complaints.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 21:36:00 -0500

Thanks for your kind words. You did a great job with this forum, running it as you personally saw fit, which appeared to be in a very competent and professional manner.

I haven't done anything to prevent your ability to send bulk e-mail to users of this forum. I'd rather not, however, send out a bulk e-mail to all users that have ever registered in this forum. I'll try not to shut the forum down before Wednesday. So hopefully the most frequent visitors will know what's up prior to that time. You of course know who these people are already.

As for the two domains, unless I hear back from you in the negative, I'll e-mail you with a directNIC.com account user name and password for each domain. I first need to transfer the domains into newly created accounts, so it will take take several weeks, following forum shutdown. You can then of course change all account information, and the passwords, taking ownership and control of these domains.

And so he has!