I have to agree, I love all the buttons and ability to tweak the bulletin board to do tonns of great things. But I for my site I have technology impared users (it's OK, I can make fun of them, they're family members).

It would be great to see an option to get rid of all the extra bells and whistles and just show the basics. Post New Message. Reply to Message. Print Message. The message editor does need any style options just plain 'ol text.

I'm guessing this can be done for everyone by editing the template, but to be honest I haven't looked at these yet. What would be cool is there is a user set option beginner, intermediate, advanced setting that provides more options and more information to be displayed.

Could you use Formulize to create a custom form?

http://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/project/?group_id=1179


I also stumbled across the following survey tool, BlueMoon MultiSurvey. Haven't tried it yet.

http://www.bluemooninc.biz/~xoops2/modules/wiwimod/index.php?page=MultiSurvey&back=WiwiHome

I was casually reviewing my web logs today when I had to take a double take at my bandwidth usage. I normally get 100-200 MB of bandwidth used from approx 10-15 people who go to both of my XOOPS sites. One is for family, one is for some of the members in co-operative housing association. My bandwidth usage had spiked to over 2,500 MB. Something was wrong. I found the following info:

Top two pages:

14551 hits, 721892 KB, for /forum/modules/piCal/
13824 hits, 652954 KB, for /forum/modules/piCal/print.php

pretty crazy for a calendar with only 15 entries!


Top IP addresses:

12919 hits, 12896 files, 595040 KB, 46 visits from 66.249.66.66

9141 hits, 9131 files, 520028 KB, 5 visits from 66.249.66.196


Other high bandwith IPs include:
24.84.184.143
66.249.65.83
66.249.65.230


I did a search for the top IP and found:

OrgName: Google Inc.
OrgID: GOGL
Address: 2400 E. Bayshore Parkway
City: Mountain View
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94043
Country: US

NetRange: 66.249.64.0 - 66.249.95.255


I've temporarily disabled PiCal but I guess I need to somehow get the bots to not crawl PiCal.

Any thoughts or suggestions on what I should do?

If it helps, here are the two sites I am running, the juniper site is the one that got hammered:

http://www.mosiegrimm.com
http://juniper.mosiegrimm.com

I've tried Wiwi and PHPWiki and am really happy with PHPWiki. Mostly because of it's simplicity.

It can be downloaded from BlueTopia at
http://bluetopia.homeip.net/modules/mydownloads/

Xoops uses it here on their dev site at
http://dev.xoops.org/modules/phpwiki/

Other options you may want to explore are AMS, WF-Sections and SmartSection. You should find all of these within the Module section here on xoops.org.

Yes this question has been asked many times here. It looks like the most common response is work it out with your host. From what I've heard SMTPauth is the best option to get e-mail out but I've only been able to use it to send e-mail to users within the same domain as my XOOPS site.

Here is a similar post I just recently responsed to:

https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=26648&forum=7

I've also posted a comment at my web host's support bulletin board and waiting for some guidance. I'll post anything I find out here.

I am having the exact same problem, I can receive e-mails with the same domain name but it will not send anything out to other domains. I've used php, sendmail, smtp and smtpauth. All with no luck. If I setup the account with outlook I'm able to send to any domain.

I'm guessing it is some sort of anti-spam sending filter put in place by the web host. But it's a wild guess.

Let me know how it's worked out for you!

btw - I am using mysitespace as my host.

Allowing users to rank individual posts... sounds like a great idea!

You could roll up this ranking in a number of useful ways. article ranking, forum ranking and even user ranking. People could then work for a high "PostRank" (can I trademark this? ) next to their name.

I agee, this will also eliminate bandwidth with "Me Too" messages and other banter generated just to increase post #s.

If this is to work, ranking would have to be easy for the end user. It think it should be similar to how the rating in Windows Media Player works, where there are 5 hollow stars. When you put the mouse over the first star and it fills in. When you place the mouse over the second star, the first two fills in, etc. It just takes a single click on the star to register a rating. Allowing a user to adjust their rating would also be useful.

Then again... I'm only posting this message so that I can increase my number of posts next to my name.