Hints and Tips on Using Caucus
When an item is frozen, no more responses can be added to it.
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Items are only freezable (by the conference organizer and/or the creator
of the item) if the "Allow item creator to Freeze, Delete, and Rename Item?"
option in the customize screen is clicked on.
- In the item screen, the one that shows the articles, click the
"Edit" button beside the item title (not one of those besides the
various articles).
- Click on Freeze.
- To thaw, edit the item again. You will see that the "Freeze"
option now is a "Thaw" option.
There is no read-only item as such. But you can easily fake it:
- Create the item.
- Post the (initial) articles.
- Freeze the item (see above).
- To post more aricles, thaw the item, post, freeze again.
Some users have mentioned this phenomenon. Try downloading the "official"
UWO distribution.
You can do this as follows:
- Start ws_ftp, which you got with the UWOnet (Taking the Internet Home)
package.
Note: you can also just click on one of the file names in the
list below, which will do ftp automatically.
- In the Profiles pull-down list, there probaly is an entry for
anonymous ftp at UWO. If not, the hostname is ftp.uwo.ca.
- Login as user anonymous, as password give your email address
(whoever@julian.uwo.ca).
- On the PC side, go to directory /TMP, or some other scratch
directory.
- On the ftp server side, go to the directory /pub/micro/uwo_distributions/www/win31.
Your initial directory may already be /pub/micro
Download either (in binary mode, which should be the default) one of:
Note: If you download one of these by clicking, make sure you
save in C:\TMP or something like that. If the file is not
found, use ws_ftp to go to the ftp site, as a newer version than is
listed here may be in place.
- n16e302p.exe (the latest version 3)
- cc16e402.exe (version 4)
- cp16e402.exe (version 4 professional, with lots
of extras).
- Execute the file you downloaded, for example by double clicking it
in File Manager. This will start the installation process.
If this didn't help, you have a problem. Try going to http://help.netscape.com. In the
Search the Knowledge Base box type GP fault and click
Search. You might get lucky.
There is currently no "official" way to archive a conference. However,
you can archive each item with the following technique.
In your preferences (click on your highlighted name, then go to Section III:
Your Settings), change Responses / Page (25 by default) to some large
number. Go to the item you want to archive, and do a File->Save As from
the netscape menu bar. You can then save the whole item in one go,
either as plain text or HTML.
We've had some problems where people compose long responses in the
caucus response window and then lost it when submiting it. If you are
using a modem to connect to caucus, the modem at the side of the
university is set to time out after 20 minutes of idle time. Composing
a message in the caucus window is local to the PC, and therefore counts
as "idle" time as far as the universities modems are concerned. As a
result your connection times out if the composing takes more than 20
minutes, and you loose your work.
I would strongly recommend the following, even if you do not use a
modem: compose any messages that are longer than a few lines in
something like Notepad, not in the caucus response window. Save the
response to disk. Then post the response using the Upload buttom above
the response window.
Please note that the file will have to be plain ASCII. Notepad produces
plain ASCII, MSword, WordPerfect, Wordpad etc. do not (you can make
them produce ASCII by using the corect Save As option).
Note: Power Point presentations will only be viewable by people
who have a Power Point plug-in installed with their browser.