First Fives Bulletin Board
Policies and Practices
What can I post on the bulletin board?
- You may post questions, answers, or observations that pertain directly to the ownership, operation, repair or service of 1972 - 1981 BMW 5-Series cars a.k.a the E12.
- You may post advertisements for goods or services that pertain directly to the ownership, operation, repair or service of 1972 - 1981 BMW 5-Series cars a.k.a the E12.
- You may post questions, answers, or observations about the First Fives Bulletin Board.
- Your posts may contain links to other web pages or to pictures if the other pages or pictures pertain directly to the ownership, operation, repair or service of 1972 - 1981 BMW 5-Series cars a.k.a the E12.
- You may not post profanity, pornography, or personal attacks.
- You may not post links to profanity, pornography, or personal attacks.
- You may not respond in any way to posts that violate the board rules.
Why didn't my post show up?
All web browsers have a cache where they keep pages that have been recently
accessed. When you access a page that you have accessed before, the browser
may display the version in the cache instead of the new one. Browsers do this
to save time by avoiding needless accesses across the network. Your post most
likely did not show up, because your browser did not fetch the page from our
website; it simply pulled it out of cache.
You can solve this problem by changing your browser settings. In Internet
Explorer, do the following. Pull down the "Tools" menu and select "Internet
Options". On the "General" tab, click the button that says "Settings".
Select the option that says "Every visit to the page". Then click "OK' and
then click "OK" again.
Some ISPs use a proxy server. Some proxy servers also cache pages. If your
ISP uses a "caching" proxy server, then you'll just have to click the refresh
button in your browser until your post appears.
How do I post a link to a web page?
At the bottom of the form that is used to post a message, there are two text inputs: "Optional Link URL" and "Link Title". In "Optional Link URL", type the fully qualified URL of the web page that you want to link to. Example 1: http://www.firstfives.org. Example 2: http://www.firstfives.org/mechanics.html. Note: Web pages generally end in ".html", ".htm", ".jsp", or ".asp". In "Link Title", type any text that you'd like to use as the link title. If you type nothing, then the URL you entered will be used as the title.
How do I post an image?
Our message board does not allow pictures to be posted directly. Even if it did, we don't have the disk space to allow unrestricted posting of pictures. What you can do is to post a link to an image that is hosted elsewhere. See the answer to the question, "How do I post a link to an image?"
How do I post a link to an image?
At the bottom of the form that is used to post a message, there is a text input: "Optional Image URL". In "Optional Image URL", type the fully qualified URL of the image that you want to link to. Example: http://www.firstfives.org/photos/0001.jpg. Note: Image files generally end in ".jpg", ".gif", or ".pcx", and never end in ".html". In "Link Title", type any text that you'd like to use as the link title. If you type nothing, then the URL you entered will be used as the title.
Can I put html tags anywhere in my posts?
No. You cannot use HTML tags in any part of your message. This feature was deactivated because it is a security risk.
Where can I get the scripts for this program?
Visit http://scriptarchive.com.
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