Re: Link to oooforum

2014-09-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Side note: It occurred to me that some of my failures may be 
attributed to the site simply not responding since it stopped responding 
last night.




On 09/03/2014 01:17 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:


Well, I find the entire thing rather confusing. For example, I can 
extract the table of text as follows:


TAB T=1
URL GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results 
ATTR=NAME:search_author CONTENT=RobinColvin

TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=*

'Extract the table text.
TAG POS=7 TYPE=TABLE ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

If I want to extract all of the URLs in the table, well, I can't 
figure out how to do that. I am able to enumerate the first two links 
as follows:


TAB T=1
URL GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results 
ATTR=NAME:search_author CONTENT=RobinColvin

TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=*

TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
TAG POS=2 TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

I had trouble simply extracting all of them, so, I tried to use java 
script to call iMacro, but that never returned from the first iimPlay


var spammer=RobinColvin

window.alert(Read for ' + spammer + ');

var search_macro;
search_macro =CODE:;
search_macro +=URL 
GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml+\n;;
search_macro +=TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT 
FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=NAME:search_author 
CONTENT=+spammer+\n;
search_macro +=TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT 
FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=*+\n;




var links = [];
var iLink = 1;
var iMaxLink = 100
var link = ;
var extract_link_macro;

window.alert(search_macro);

// Perform the search!
iimPlay(search_macro)

window.alert(Finished with search!);

do {
  extract_link_macro =CODE:;
  extract_link_macro +=TAG POS=+iLink+1 TYPE=A 
ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF+\n;

  iimPlay(extract_link_macro);
  link=iimGetLastExtract();
  if(link!=#EANF#) {
links.push(link);
iLink = iLink + 1;
  }
} while (link != #EANF#  iLink = iMaxLink)

window.alert(found  + iLink +  links);


If I assume that I have already searched, then I can extract all of 
the links by using loop execute and then using a macro similar to:


TAG POS={{!LOOP}} TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

If I loop 50 times, it exports everything from that one page into 
three files. It seems that it does not easily support doing the entire 
thing in one shot; at least while using a loop!


At least by listing the extract command 50 times I end up with only 
one file.


this is not a simple thing and it still does not get me to my end game.

On 09/02/2014 10:23 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

On 9/2/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote:
There is very little difference between what an admin and a user 
sees in

this context.

To find the posts, I use the regular search. The returned list is the
same for an admin as well as a regular user. While displaying a thread,
there is an admin link that allows me to remove the thread and there is
a link to remove each post in the thread. There is also a link on the
bottom of each thread to navigate to a special admin page that provides
some extra functions such as delete a user (but deleting the user does
not remove their posts).

I did an excercise and try deleting my own posts from oooforum. I see
what you mean (and what I was missing). There is no checkbox to mark
all the posts like it would be on -- let say  -- the PM page where a
checkbox is able to mass delete all links.

I understand now your point on looping through non secuential links. I
went on the iMacros forum and found some tips responding to a
positioning loop.
http://forum.imacros.net/viewtopic.php?f=8p=37399

Hope this helps.




On 09/01/2014 11:00 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

Unfortunately I dont admin any forum to see what you are seen, so I
only have access to the forum search engine but I know that the Admin
(the one able to delete the forum) is a different view.





--
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php


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Re: Link to oooforum

2014-09-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Yeah, even when I build an iMacro to remove a single post based on a 
hard coded URL, oooforum is so slow, that it fails to respond in 60 
seconds after saying yes, remove that like I asked and then the macro 
itself stops running. I set the timeout to 10 minutes, will see if that 
is sufficient. That said, when the forum is so slow, hardly seems worth 
the effort.


On 09/03/2014 08:41 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
Side note: It occurred to me that some of my failures may be 
attributed to the site simply not responding since it stopped 
responding last night.




On 09/03/2014 01:17 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:


Well, I find the entire thing rather confusing. For example, I can 
extract the table of text as follows:


TAB T=1
URL GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results 
ATTR=NAME:search_author CONTENT=RobinColvin

TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=*

'Extract the table text.
TAG POS=7 TYPE=TABLE ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

If I want to extract all of the URLs in the table, well, I can't 
figure out how to do that. I am able to enumerate the first two links 
as follows:


TAB T=1
URL GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results 
ATTR=NAME:search_author CONTENT=RobinColvin

TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=*

TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
TAG POS=2 TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

I had trouble simply extracting all of them, so, I tried to use java 
script to call iMacro, but that never returned from the first iimPlay


var spammer=RobinColvin

window.alert(Read for ' + spammer + ');

var search_macro;
search_macro =CODE:;
search_macro +=URL 
GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml+\n;;
search_macro +=TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT 
FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=NAME:search_author 
CONTENT=+spammer+\n;
search_macro +=TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT 
FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=*+\n;




var links = [];
var iLink = 1;
var iMaxLink = 100
var link = ;
var extract_link_macro;

window.alert(search_macro);

// Perform the search!
iimPlay(search_macro)

window.alert(Finished with search!);

do {
  extract_link_macro =CODE:;
  extract_link_macro +=TAG POS=+iLink+1 TYPE=A 
ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF+\n;

  iimPlay(extract_link_macro);
  link=iimGetLastExtract();
  if(link!=#EANF#) {
links.push(link);
iLink = iLink + 1;
  }
} while (link != #EANF#  iLink = iMaxLink)

window.alert(found  + iLink +  links);


If I assume that I have already searched, then I can extract all of 
the links by using loop execute and then using a macro similar to:


TAG POS={{!LOOP}} TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

If I loop 50 times, it exports everything from that one page into 
three files. It seems that it does not easily support doing the 
entire thing in one shot; at least while using a loop!


At least by listing the extract command 50 times I end up with only 
one file.


this is not a simple thing and it still does not get me to my end game.

On 09/02/2014 10:23 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

On 9/2/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote:
There is very little difference between what an admin and a user 
sees in

this context.

To find the posts, I use the regular search. The returned list is the
same for an admin as well as a regular user. While displaying a 
thread,
there is an admin link that allows me to remove the thread and 
there is

a link to remove each post in the thread. There is also a link on the
bottom of each thread to navigate to a special admin page that 
provides

some extra functions such as delete a user (but deleting the user does
not remove their posts).

I did an excercise and try deleting my own posts from oooforum. I see
what you mean (and what I was missing). There is no checkbox to mark
all the posts like it would be on -- let say  -- the PM page where a
checkbox is able to mass delete all links.

I understand now your point on looping through non secuential links. I
went on the iMacros forum and found some tips responding to a
positioning loop.
http://forum.imacros.net/viewtopic.php?f=8p=37399

Hope this helps.




On 09/01/2014 11:00 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

Unfortunately I dont admin any forum to see what you are seen, so I
only have access to the forum search engine but I know that the Admin
(the one able to delete the forum) is a different view.







--
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php


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Re: Link to oooforum

2014-09-03 Thread Alexandro Colorado
I agree, sorry to see the sad state of the forum. Maybe all this
should be let known to the owner so he can take measurses. I dont
think anyone want to see oooforum go.

On 9/3/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote:
 Yeah, even when I build an iMacro to remove a single post based on a
 hard coded URL, oooforum is so slow, that it fails to respond in 60
 seconds after saying yes, remove that like I asked and then the macro
 itself stops running. I set the timeout to 10 minutes, will see if that
 is sufficient. That said, when the forum is so slow, hardly seems worth
 the effort.

 On 09/03/2014 08:41 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
 Side note: It occurred to me that some of my failures may be
 attributed to the site simply not responding since it stopped
 responding last night.



 On 09/03/2014 01:17 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:

 Well, I find the entire thing rather confusing. For example, I can
 extract the table of text as follows:

 TAB T=1
 URL GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml
 TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results
 ATTR=NAME:search_author CONTENT=RobinColvin
 TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=*

 'Extract the table text.
 TAG POS=7 TYPE=TABLE ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT
 SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

 If I want to extract all of the URLs in the table, well, I can't
 figure out how to do that. I am able to enumerate the first two links
 as follows:

 TAB T=1
 URL GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml
 TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results
 ATTR=NAME:search_author CONTENT=RobinColvin
 TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=*

 TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
 TAG POS=2 TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
 SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

 I had trouble simply extracting all of them, so, I tried to use java
 script to call iMacro, but that never returned from the first iimPlay

 var spammer=RobinColvin

 window.alert(Read for ' + spammer + ');

 var search_macro;
 search_macro =CODE:;
 search_macro +=URL
 GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml+\n;;
 search_macro +=TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT
 FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=NAME:search_author
 CONTENT=+spammer+\n;
 search_macro +=TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT
 FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=*+\n;



 var links = [];
 var iLink = 1;
 var iMaxLink = 100
 var link = ;
 var extract_link_macro;

 window.alert(search_macro);

 // Perform the search!
 iimPlay(search_macro)

 window.alert(Finished with search!);

 do {
   extract_link_macro =CODE:;
   extract_link_macro +=TAG POS=+iLink+1 TYPE=A
 ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF+\n;
   iimPlay(extract_link_macro);
   link=iimGetLastExtract();
   if(link!=#EANF#) {
 links.push(link);
 iLink = iLink + 1;
   }
 } while (link != #EANF#  iLink = iMaxLink)

 window.alert(found  + iLink +  links);


 If I assume that I have already searched, then I can extract all of
 the links by using loop execute and then using a macro similar to:

 TAG POS={{!LOOP}} TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
 SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

 If I loop 50 times, it exports everything from that one page into
 three files. It seems that it does not easily support doing the
 entire thing in one shot; at least while using a loop!

 At least by listing the extract command 50 times I end up with only
 one file.

 this is not a simple thing and it still does not get me to my end game.

 On 09/02/2014 10:23 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
 On 9/2/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote:
 There is very little difference between what an admin and a user
 sees in
 this context.

 To find the posts, I use the regular search. The returned list is the
 same for an admin as well as a regular user. While displaying a
 thread,
 there is an admin link that allows me to remove the thread and
 there is
 a link to remove each post in the thread. There is also a link on the
 bottom of each thread to navigate to a special admin page that
 provides
 some extra functions such as delete a user (but deleting the user does
 not remove their posts).
 I did an excercise and try deleting my own posts from oooforum. I see
 what you mean (and what I was missing). There is no checkbox to mark
 all the posts like it would be on -- let say  -- the PM page where a
 checkbox is able to mass delete all links.

 I understand now your point on looping through non secuential links. I
 went on the iMacros forum and found some tips responding to a
 positioning loop.
 http://forum.imacros.net/viewtopic.php?f=8p=37399

 Hope this helps.



 On 09/01/2014 11:00 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
 Unfortunately I dont admin any forum to see what you are seen, so I
 only have access to the forum search engine 

Re: Link to oooforum

2014-09-03 Thread Alexandro Colorado
For the record, you could do this also on our forums at
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/

This will give you a fast server to work on until oooforum is back in
shape. Trying to delete your own post could do the trick enough to
test it.

On 9/3/14, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote:
 I agree, sorry to see the sad state of the forum. Maybe all this
 should be let known to the owner so he can take measurses. I dont
 think anyone want to see oooforum go.

 On 9/3/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote:
 Yeah, even when I build an iMacro to remove a single post based on a
 hard coded URL, oooforum is so slow, that it fails to respond in 60
 seconds after saying yes, remove that like I asked and then the macro
 itself stops running. I set the timeout to 10 minutes, will see if that
 is sufficient. That said, when the forum is so slow, hardly seems worth
 the effort.

 On 09/03/2014 08:41 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
 Side note: It occurred to me that some of my failures may be
 attributed to the site simply not responding since it stopped
 responding last night.



 On 09/03/2014 01:17 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:

 Well, I find the entire thing rather confusing. For example, I can
 extract the table of text as follows:

 TAB T=1
 URL GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml
 TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results
 ATTR=NAME:search_author CONTENT=RobinColvin
 TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results
 ATTR=*

 'Extract the table text.
 TAG POS=7 TYPE=TABLE ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT
 SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

 If I want to extract all of the URLs in the table, well, I can't
 figure out how to do that. I am able to enumerate the first two links
 as follows:

 TAB T=1
 URL GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml
 TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results
 ATTR=NAME:search_author CONTENT=RobinColvin
 TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results
 ATTR=*

 TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
 TAG POS=2 TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
 SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

 I had trouble simply extracting all of them, so, I tried to use java
 script to call iMacro, but that never returned from the first iimPlay

 var spammer=RobinColvin

 window.alert(Read for ' + spammer + ');

 var search_macro;
 search_macro =CODE:;
 search_macro +=URL
 GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml+\n;;
 search_macro +=TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT
 FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=NAME:search_author
 CONTENT=+spammer+\n;
 search_macro +=TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT
 FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=*+\n;



 var links = [];
 var iLink = 1;
 var iMaxLink = 100
 var link = ;
 var extract_link_macro;

 window.alert(search_macro);

 // Perform the search!
 iimPlay(search_macro)

 window.alert(Finished with search!);

 do {
   extract_link_macro =CODE:;
   extract_link_macro +=TAG POS=+iLink+1 TYPE=A
 ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF+\n;
   iimPlay(extract_link_macro);
   link=iimGetLastExtract();
   if(link!=#EANF#) {
 links.push(link);
 iLink = iLink + 1;
   }
 } while (link != #EANF#  iLink = iMaxLink)

 window.alert(found  + iLink +  links);


 If I assume that I have already searched, then I can extract all of
 the links by using loop execute and then using a macro similar to:

 TAG POS={{!LOOP}} TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
 SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

 If I loop 50 times, it exports everything from that one page into
 three files. It seems that it does not easily support doing the
 entire thing in one shot; at least while using a loop!

 At least by listing the extract command 50 times I end up with only
 one file.

 this is not a simple thing and it still does not get me to my end game.

 On 09/02/2014 10:23 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
 On 9/2/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote:
 There is very little difference between what an admin and a user
 sees in
 this context.

 To find the posts, I use the regular search. The returned list is the
 same for an admin as well as a regular user. While displaying a
 thread,
 there is an admin link that allows me to remove the thread and
 there is
 a link to remove each post in the thread. There is also a link on the
 bottom of each thread to navigate to a special admin page that
 provides
 some extra functions such as delete a user (but deleting the user
 does
 not remove their posts).
 I did an excercise and try deleting my own posts from oooforum. I see
 what you mean (and what I was missing). There is no checkbox to mark
 all the posts like it would be on -- let say  -- the PM page where a
 checkbox is able to mass delete all links.

 I understand now your point on looping through non secuential links. I
 went on the iMacros 

Re: Link to oooforum

2014-09-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
The next version of the forum software used by oooforum supports 
deleting all posts by the user. Also, there is an add-on for the version 
2 (I think) that also supports this.


The official forum runs great, no need to test there. It is sufficiently 
moderated that there are no particular issues.


On 09/03/2014 05:28 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

For the record, you could do this also on our forums at
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/

This will give you a fast server to work on until oooforum is back in
shape. Trying to delete your own post could do the trick enough to
test it.

On 9/3/14, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote:

I agree, sorry to see the sad state of the forum. Maybe all this
should be let known to the owner so he can take measurses. I dont
think anyone want to see oooforum go.

On 9/3/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote:

Yeah, even when I build an iMacro to remove a single post based on a
hard coded URL, oooforum is so slow, that it fails to respond in 60
seconds after saying yes, remove that like I asked and then the macro
itself stops running. I set the timeout to 10 minutes, will see if that
is sufficient. That said, when the forum is so slow, hardly seems worth
the effort.

On 09/03/2014 08:41 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:

Side note: It occurred to me that some of my failures may be
attributed to the site simply not responding since it stopped
responding last night.



On 09/03/2014 01:17 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:

Well, I find the entire thing rather confusing. For example, I can
extract the table of text as follows:

TAB T=1
URL GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results
ATTR=NAME:search_author CONTENT=RobinColvin
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results
ATTR=*

'Extract the table text.
TAG POS=7 TYPE=TABLE ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

If I want to extract all of the URLs in the table, well, I can't
figure out how to do that. I am able to enumerate the first two links
as follows:

TAB T=1
URL GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results
ATTR=NAME:search_author CONTENT=RobinColvin
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results
ATTR=*

TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
TAG POS=2 TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

I had trouble simply extracting all of them, so, I tried to use java
script to call iMacro, but that never returned from the first iimPlay

var spammer=RobinColvin

window.alert(Read for ' + spammer + ');

var search_macro;
search_macro =CODE:;
search_macro +=URL
GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml+\n;;
search_macro +=TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT
FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=NAME:search_author
CONTENT=+spammer+\n;
search_macro +=TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT
FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=*+\n;



var links = [];
var iLink = 1;
var iMaxLink = 100
var link = ;
var extract_link_macro;

window.alert(search_macro);

// Perform the search!
iimPlay(search_macro)

window.alert(Finished with search!);

do {
   extract_link_macro =CODE:;
   extract_link_macro +=TAG POS=+iLink+1 TYPE=A
ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF+\n;
   iimPlay(extract_link_macro);
   link=iimGetLastExtract();
   if(link!=#EANF#) {
 links.push(link);
 iLink = iLink + 1;
   }
} while (link != #EANF#  iLink = iMaxLink)

window.alert(found  + iLink +  links);


If I assume that I have already searched, then I can extract all of
the links by using loop execute and then using a macro similar to:

TAG POS={{!LOOP}} TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

If I loop 50 times, it exports everything from that one page into
three files. It seems that it does not easily support doing the
entire thing in one shot; at least while using a loop!

At least by listing the extract command 50 times I end up with only
one file.

this is not a simple thing and it still does not get me to my end game.

On 09/02/2014 10:23 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

On 9/2/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote:

There is very little difference between what an admin and a user
sees in
this context.

To find the posts, I use the regular search. The returned list is the
same for an admin as well as a regular user. While displaying a
thread,
there is an admin link that allows me to remove the thread and
there is
a link to remove each post in the thread. There is also a link on the
bottom of each thread to navigate to a special admin page that
provides
some extra functions such as delete a user (but deleting the user
does
not remove their posts).

I did an excercise and try deleting my own posts from oooforum. I see
what you mean 

Re: Link to oooforum

2014-09-03 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Sorry the way I understood you couldnt work confortable at oooforum
because of its unresponsiveness. So I suggest using the official
forums to test the iMacros until they are up there to perform all the
tasks.

But I most have missed something.
Regards.

On 9/3/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote:
 The next version of the forum software used by oooforum supports
 deleting all posts by the user. Also, there is an add-on for the version
 2 (I think) that also supports this.

 The official forum runs great, no need to test there. It is sufficiently
 moderated that there are no particular issues.

 On 09/03/2014 05:28 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
 For the record, you could do this also on our forums at
 https://forum.openoffice.org/en/

 This will give you a fast server to work on until oooforum is back in
 shape. Trying to delete your own post could do the trick enough to
 test it.

 On 9/3/14, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote:
 I agree, sorry to see the sad state of the forum. Maybe all this
 should be let known to the owner so he can take measurses. I dont
 think anyone want to see oooforum go.

 On 9/3/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote:
 Yeah, even when I build an iMacro to remove a single post based on a
 hard coded URL, oooforum is so slow, that it fails to respond in 60
 seconds after saying yes, remove that like I asked and then the macro
 itself stops running. I set the timeout to 10 minutes, will see if that
 is sufficient. That said, when the forum is so slow, hardly seems worth
 the effort.

 On 09/03/2014 08:41 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
 Side note: It occurred to me that some of my failures may be
 attributed to the site simply not responding since it stopped
 responding last night.



 On 09/03/2014 01:17 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
 Well, I find the entire thing rather confusing. For example, I can
 extract the table of text as follows:

 TAB T=1
 URL GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml
 TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results
 ATTR=NAME:search_author CONTENT=RobinColvin
 TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results
 ATTR=*

 'Extract the table text.
 TAG POS=7 TYPE=TABLE ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT
 SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

 If I want to extract all of the URLs in the table, well, I can't
 figure out how to do that. I am able to enumerate the first two links
 as follows:

 TAB T=1
 URL GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml
 TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results
 ATTR=NAME:search_author CONTENT=RobinColvin
 TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results
 ATTR=*

 TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
 TAG POS=2 TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
 SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

 I had trouble simply extracting all of them, so, I tried to use java
 script to call iMacro, but that never returned from the first iimPlay

 var spammer=RobinColvin

 window.alert(Read for ' + spammer + ');

 var search_macro;
 search_macro =CODE:;
 search_macro +=URL
 GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml+\n;;
 search_macro +=TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT
 FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=NAME:search_author
 CONTENT=+spammer+\n;
 search_macro +=TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT
 FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=*+\n;



 var links = [];
 var iLink = 1;
 var iMaxLink = 100
 var link = ;
 var extract_link_macro;

 window.alert(search_macro);

 // Perform the search!
 iimPlay(search_macro)

 window.alert(Finished with search!);

 do {
extract_link_macro =CODE:;
extract_link_macro +=TAG POS=+iLink+1 TYPE=A
 ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF+\n;
iimPlay(extract_link_macro);
link=iimGetLastExtract();
if(link!=#EANF#) {
  links.push(link);
  iLink = iLink + 1;
}
 } while (link != #EANF#  iLink = iMaxLink)

 window.alert(found  + iLink +  links);


 If I assume that I have already searched, then I can extract all of
 the links by using loop execute and then using a macro similar to:

 TAG POS={{!LOOP}} TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
 SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

 If I loop 50 times, it exports everything from that one page into
 three files. It seems that it does not easily support doing the
 entire thing in one shot; at least while using a loop!

 At least by listing the extract command 50 times I end up with only
 one file.

 this is not a simple thing and it still does not get me to my end
 game.

 On 09/02/2014 10:23 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
 On 9/2/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote:
 There is very little difference between what an admin and a user
 sees in
 this context.

 To find the posts, I use the regular search. The returned list is
 the
 same for an admin as well as a regular user. While 

Re: Link to oooforum

2014-09-02 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
There is very little difference between what an admin and a user sees in 
this context.


To find the posts, I use the regular search. The returned list is the 
same for an admin as well as a regular user. While displaying a thread, 
there is an admin link that allows me to remove the thread and there is 
a link to remove each post in the thread. There is also a link on the 
bottom of each thread to navigate to a special admin page that provides 
some extra functions such as delete a user (but deleting the user does 
not remove their posts).




On 09/01/2014 11:00 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
Unfortunately I dont admin any forum to see what you are seen, so I 
only have access to the forum search engine but I know that the Admin 
(the one able to delete the forum) is a different view.


I know the individual post url is on a (very small) icon next to the 
Posted date. If you search for 'Posted:' on the source you will find 
something like this.
td width=100%*a href=viewtopic.phtml?p=725853#725853 
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=725853#725853*img 
src=templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost_new.gif 
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost_new.gif 
width=12 height=9 alt=New post title=New post border=0 
//aspan class=postdetailsPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 4:36 pmspan 
class=gennbsp;/spannbsp; nbsp;Post subject: reinserting spaces 
in text where spaces removed/span/td


On the blob of HTML that you gave me, I could read a similar URL after 
'RobinColvin':
view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/profile.phtml?mode=viewprofileu=294602RobinColvin/a 
a  href=viewtopic.phtml?p=725805#725805 
*view-source:**http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=725805#725805***img 
src=templates/subSilver/images/icon_latest_reply.gif 
view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/templates/subSilver/images/icon_latest_reply.gifalt=View 
latest posttitle=View latest postborder=0//a/span/td


​I also looked at iMacros, and found a couple of tutorials about Data 
extraction for URLs:

http://wiki.imacros.net/Data_Extraction#The_Extract_command
and images urls:
http://forum.imacros.net/viewtopic.php?f=7t=5703​


On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak 
and...@pitonyak.org mailto:and...@pitonyak.org wrote:


On 09/01/2014 03:15 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

Yup my idea is that you have an array with the spam users,
perform a search
on them, and then fill out the page with the posts related to
the spam
users, and just have the macros select all checkboxes and
press the delete,
and go to the next page. That would allow you to get all the
spam from that
user at least in a smaller process.


I was able to use iMacros to search for all posts by a specific
user. I was able to export the text from the found rows. I have
not figured out how to export the links to each individual message.

Sadly, I must navigate to each spam thread and delete each thread
individually. If I am able to figure out how to export each spam
link, I can always use some other scripting language that I know
well to create huge scripts that itemize each bad thread. I am
able to post a sample HTML output if anyone knows how to use
iMacros. To make things even worse, it probably only shows about
40 messages per page. The biggest hurdle is simply learning
iMacros; it is a bit cryptic.



Well is not really coding in Javascript since greasemonkey
takes care of
that. Remember that you only need to change the url for the
page of the
query result. Greasemonkey has a script called AutoFill where
you only need
to select the name value of the HTML control and modify it to
be checked.
The next task is to press the Button control to delete, and
the final step
is to go to the next query in time. Probably the URL will have
a page like
?p=23 so is a matter of increments.

Hmmm. Not sure that would help much in this case.

The search part is easy. It then returns a page containing a table
with entries such as this:

table 
width=100%cellpadding=4cellspacing=1border=0class=forumlinealign=center

  tr
th 
width=4%height=25class=thCornerLnowrap=nowrapnbsp;/th

th  class=thTopnowrap=nowrapnbsp;Forumnbsp;/th
th  class=thTopnowrap=nowrapnbsp;Topicsnbsp;/th
th  class=thTopnowrap=nowrapnbsp;Authornbsp;/th
th  class=thTopnowrap=nowrapnbsp;Repliesnbsp;/th
th  class=thTopnowrap=nowrapnbsp;Viewsnbsp;/th
th  class=thCornerRnowrap=nowrapnbsp;Last
Postnbsp;/th
  /tr
  tr
td  class=row1align=centervalign=middleimg
src=templates/subSilver/images/folder.gif

view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/templates/subSilver/images/folder.gifwidth=19height=18alt=No
new 

Re: Link to oooforum

2014-09-02 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On 9/2/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote:
 There is very little difference between what an admin and a user sees in
 this context.

 To find the posts, I use the regular search. The returned list is the
 same for an admin as well as a regular user. While displaying a thread,
 there is an admin link that allows me to remove the thread and there is
 a link to remove each post in the thread. There is also a link on the
 bottom of each thread to navigate to a special admin page that provides
 some extra functions such as delete a user (but deleting the user does
 not remove their posts).

I did an excercise and try deleting my own posts from oooforum. I see
what you mean (and what I was missing). There is no checkbox to mark
all the posts like it would be on -- let say  -- the PM page where a
checkbox is able to mass delete all links.

I understand now your point on looping through non secuential links. I
went on the iMacros forum and found some tips responding to a
positioning loop.
http://forum.imacros.net/viewtopic.php?f=8p=37399

Hope this helps.




 On 09/01/2014 11:00 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
 Unfortunately I dont admin any forum to see what you are seen, so I
 only have access to the forum search engine but I know that the Admin
 (the one able to delete the forum) is a different view.


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Re: Link to oooforum

2014-09-02 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak


Well, I find the entire thing rather confusing. For example, I can 
extract the table of text as follows:


TAB T=1
URL GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results 
ATTR=NAME:search_author CONTENT=RobinColvin

TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=*

'Extract the table text.
TAG POS=7 TYPE=TABLE ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

If I want to extract all of the URLs in the table, well, I can't figure 
out how to do that. I am able to enumerate the first two links as follows:


TAB T=1
URL GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results 
ATTR=NAME:search_author CONTENT=RobinColvin

TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=*

TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
TAG POS=2 TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

I had trouble simply extracting all of them, so, I tried to use java 
script to call iMacro, but that never returned from the first iimPlay


var spammer=RobinColvin

window.alert(Read for ' + spammer + ');

var search_macro;
search_macro =CODE:;
search_macro +=URL GOTO=http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml+\n;;
search_macro +=TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT 
FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=NAME:search_author 
CONTENT=+spammer+\n;
search_macro +=TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT 
FORM=ACTION:search.phtml?mode=results ATTR=*+\n;




var links = [];
var iLink = 1;
var iMaxLink = 100
var link = ;
var extract_link_macro;

window.alert(search_macro);

// Perform the search!
iimPlay(search_macro)

window.alert(Finished with search!);

do {
  extract_link_macro =CODE:;
  extract_link_macro +=TAG POS=+iLink+1 TYPE=A 
ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF+\n;

  iimPlay(extract_link_macro);
  link=iimGetLastExtract();
  if(link!=#EANF#) {
links.push(link);
iLink = iLink + 1;
  }
} while (link != #EANF#  iLink = iMaxLink)

window.alert(found  + iLink +  links);


If I assume that I have already searched, then I can extract all of the 
links by using loop execute and then using a macro similar to:


TAG POS={{!LOOP}} TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:*CLASS:topictitle EXTRACT=HREF
SAVEAS TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=mytable_{{!NOW:yymmdd_hhnnss}}.csv

If I loop 50 times, it exports everything from that one page into three 
files. It seems that it does not easily support doing the entire thing 
in one shot; at least while using a loop!


At least by listing the extract command 50 times I end up with only one 
file.


this is not a simple thing and it still does not get me to my end game.

On 09/02/2014 10:23 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

On 9/2/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote:

There is very little difference between what an admin and a user sees in
this context.

To find the posts, I use the regular search. The returned list is the
same for an admin as well as a regular user. While displaying a thread,
there is an admin link that allows me to remove the thread and there is
a link to remove each post in the thread. There is also a link on the
bottom of each thread to navigate to a special admin page that provides
some extra functions such as delete a user (but deleting the user does
not remove their posts).

I did an excercise and try deleting my own posts from oooforum. I see
what you mean (and what I was missing). There is no checkbox to mark
all the posts like it would be on -- let say  -- the PM page where a
checkbox is able to mass delete all links.

I understand now your point on looping through non secuential links. I
went on the iMacros forum and found some tips responding to a
positioning loop.
http://forum.imacros.net/viewtopic.php?f=8p=37399

Hope this helps.




On 09/01/2014 11:00 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

Unfortunately I dont admin any forum to see what you are seen, so I
only have access to the forum search engine but I know that the Admin
(the one able to delete the forum) is a different view.



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Re: Link to oooforum

2014-09-01 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak


I am looking at iMacro, thanks for the suggestion. My initial attempts 
this morning have failed because it seems to want a concrete starting 
URL. So, when I recorded a script to delete the currently displayed 
spam, what it really recorded was navigate to the current URL, now do 
what you want. Looks like I can probably set the search URL, try to 
scrape all of the results, and then I can probably use those results to 
navigate to each found SPAM message and delete it. That would at least 
allow me to remove a chunk at a time. If that works, then I can expand 
the macro. I suppose that a first step would be search, remove the first 
found. I could then rinse and repeat but it would be much faster to 
scrape all results first. It can take up to 60 seconds to delete a 
single spam (because the forum can run slow).


Do you think that I would have better luck automating with greasemonkey? 
I suppose that would be a reason to learn JavaScript. I mean, I have 
used JavaScript, but I would not say that I know Java Script. I know 
many languages, and when you know a bunch of languages already, and you 
need to simply make a change to existing code with a mostly standard 
syntax (ie, it is not something odd ball like APL), it does not take 
much to make minor bug fixes.


On 09/01/2014 12:15 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

This might sound a bit out there, but a greasemonkey script can be done to
program the check out and delete of all the post related to the handful of
nicks.
That way it could automated and ran all night.
Another extension is iMacros
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imacros-for-firefox/

Which I guess is near your field Mr Macros guy ;)


On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak 
and...@pitonyak.org wrote:


Although I am able to remove the account, all that does is convert the
posts to have a guest user. I wish it did remove the posts as well.


On 08/31/2014 09:41 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:


Can't you just remove the spamer account with all his posts?

On 8/31/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote:


More accurately, the owner is generally non-responsive (he is really
busy and does not have much time for a hobby forum).

The forum is currently hosted on machines that prevent him from granting
admin rights to the forum proper and I assume that he does not have
things properly virtualized to allow sufficient access to update the
forum proper (and no time to make this happen).

The problem with fighting the spam is that the moderators and admins
are fighting spammers that can compromise the old forum software at will
so with a volume of spam bots posting at will, it is a losing battle.

The owner told me on the phone that he was willing to do something about
this (like allow a transfer, or help, or something), but I understand
that he was not responsive when he was contacted again. When I last
called him just to see if he was alive (really, I thought he might have
died), he was surprised that the site had not been functional in about a
month and said that he had not seen my email to him. For all I know, it
was auto-filtered to spam.

I was just looking at the site, and, the first spammer listed had over
500 spams posted. The only way I have to remove spam is one thread at a
time. So, I would need to spend at least an hours (if I were able to
remove 1 thread every 6 seconds manually). That is a single spammer /
user. It would be more doable if I were able to simply remove every
message from a specific user, but I don't have that ability.

On 08/31/2014 05:23 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:


So you got feedback from them, and they denied?

I mean this forum could need some help, the download widget on the
cover still point to 2.4.0 and many links are abandoned projects like
OOoMath and such.

On 8/31/14, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote:


On 31/08/2014 Rory O'Farrell wrote:


On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:41:29 -0500 Alexandro Colorado  wrote:


I can volunteer to admin the forum and police it for spam.


As I recollect the flood of spam was such that it defeated several
experienced moderators working together. It may be impossible for one
moderator to handle on his own.


I know you both know, but for the benefit of the casual reader, we are
not talking about the official forum, but about a third-party forum
which is not under control of the project. We started some talks to
tell
the maintainers that we may help if needed, but we haven't come to a
conclusion yet. So the project does not have access to that forum and
can't promote users to moderators.

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Re: Link to oooforum

2014-09-01 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Yup my idea is that you have an array with the spam users, perform a search
on them, and then fill out the page with the posts related to the spam
users, and just have the macros select all checkboxes and press the delete,
and go to the next page. That would allow you to get all the spam from that
user at least in a smaller process.

Well is not really coding in Javascript since greasemonkey takes care of
that. Remember that you only need to change the url for the page of the
query result. Greasemonkey has a script called AutoFill where you only need
to select the name value of the HTML control and modify it to be checked.
The next task is to press the Button control to delete, and the final step
is to go to the next query in time. Probably the URL will have a page like
?p=23 so is a matter of increments.


Re: Link to oooforum

2014-09-01 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak

On 09/01/2014 03:15 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

Yup my idea is that you have an array with the spam users, perform a search
on them, and then fill out the page with the posts related to the spam
users, and just have the macros select all checkboxes and press the delete,
and go to the next page. That would allow you to get all the spam from that
user at least in a smaller process.


I was able to use iMacros to search for all posts by a specific user. I 
was able to export the text from the found rows. I have not figured out 
how to export the links to each individual message.


Sadly, I must navigate to each spam thread and delete each thread 
individually. If I am able to figure out how to export each spam link, I 
can always use some other scripting language that I know well to create 
huge scripts that itemize each bad thread. I am able to post a sample 
HTML output if anyone knows how to use iMacros. To make things even 
worse, it probably only shows about 40 messages per page. The biggest 
hurdle is simply learning iMacros; it is a bit cryptic.




Well is not really coding in Javascript since greasemonkey takes care of
that. Remember that you only need to change the url for the page of the
query result. Greasemonkey has a script called AutoFill where you only need
to select the name value of the HTML control and modify it to be checked.
The next task is to press the Button control to delete, and the final step
is to go to the next query in time. Probably the URL will have a page like
?p=23 so is a matter of increments.


Hmmm. Not sure that would help much in this case.

The search part is easy. It then returns a page containing a table with 
entries such as this:


table  
width=100%cellpadding=4cellspacing=1border=0class=forumlinealign=center
  tr
th  width=4%height=25class=thCornerLnowrap=nowrapnbsp;/th
th  class=thTopnowrap=nowrapnbsp;Forumnbsp;/th
th  class=thTopnowrap=nowrapnbsp;Topicsnbsp;/th
th  class=thTopnowrap=nowrapnbsp;Authornbsp;/th
th  class=thTopnowrap=nowrapnbsp;Repliesnbsp;/th
th  class=thTopnowrap=nowrapnbsp;Viewsnbsp;/th
th  class=thCornerRnowrap=nowrapnbsp;Last Postnbsp;/th
  /tr
  tr
td  class=row1align=centervalign=middleimg  src=templates/subSilver/images/folder.gif  
view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/templates/subSilver/images/folder.gifwidth=19height=18alt=No new poststitle=No new 
posts//td
td  class=row1span  class=forumlinka  href=viewforum.phtml?f=2  
view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewforum.phtml?f=2class=forumlinkOpenOffice.org Writer/a/span/td
td  class=row2span  class=topictitlea  href=viewtopic.phtml?t=368059amp;highlight=  
view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=368059highlight=class=topictitlebuying Maxaman, Maxaman order code, Maxaman without 
dr/a/spanbr  /span  class=gensmall/span/td
td  class=row1align=centervalign=middlespan  class=namea  
href=profile.phtml?mode=viewprofileamp;u=294602  
view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/profile.phtml?mode=viewprofileu=294602RobinColvin/a/span/td
td  class=row2align=centervalign=middlespan  
class=postdetails0/span/td
td  class=row1align=centervalign=middlespan  
class=postdetails30/span/td
td  class=row2align=centervalign=middlenowrap=nowrapspan  class=postdetailsFri Aug 29, 2014 9:19 ambr  /a  href=profile.phtml?mode=viewprofileamp;u=294602  
view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/profile.phtml?mode=viewprofileu=294602RobinColvin/a  a  href=viewtopic.phtml?p=725820#725820  view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=725820#725820img 
 src=templates/subSilver/images/icon_latest_reply.gif  view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/templates/subSilver/images/icon_latest_reply.gifalt=View latest posttitle=View latest 
postborder=0//a/span/td
  /tr
  tr
td  class=row1align=centervalign=middleimg  src=templates/subSilver/images/folder.gif  
view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/templates/subSilver/images/folder.gifwidth=19height=18alt=No new poststitle=No new 
posts//td
td  class=row1span  class=forumlinka  href=viewforum.phtml?f=2  
view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewforum.phtml?f=2class=forumlinkOpenOffice.org Writer/a/span/td
td  class=row2span  class=topictitlea  href=viewtopic.phtml?t=368050amp;highlight=  
view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=368050highlight=class=topictitlebuying Maxaman, Maxaman order code, Maxaman without 
dr/a/spanbr  /span  class=gensmall/span/td
td  class=row1align=centervalign=middlespan  class=namea  
href=profile.phtml?mode=viewprofileamp;u=294602  
view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/profile.phtml?mode=viewprofileu=294602RobinColvin/a/span/td
td  class=row2align=centervalign=middlespan  
class=postdetails0/span/td
td  class=row1align=centervalign=middlespan  
class=postdetails18/span/td
td  

Re: Link to oooforum

2014-09-01 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Unfortunately I dont admin any forum to see what you are seen, so I only
have access to the forum search engine but I know that the Admin (the one
able to delete the forum) is a different view.

I know the individual post url is on a (very small) icon next to the Posted
date. If you search for 'Posted:' on the source you will find something
like this.
td width=100%*a href=viewtopic.phtml?p=725853#725853
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=725853#725853*img src=
templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost_new.gif
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost_new.gif
width=12 height=9 alt=New post title=New post border=0 //aspan
class=postdetailsPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 4:36 pmspan class=gennbsp;
/spannbsp; nbsp;Post subject: reinserting spaces in text where spaces
removed/span/td

On the blob of HTML that you gave me, I could read a similar URL after
'RobinColvin':
view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/profile.phtml?mode=viewprofileu=
294602RobinColvin/a  a  href=viewtopic.phtml?p=725805#725805
*view-source:*
*http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=725805#725805*
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=725805#725805**img
src=templates/subSilver/images/icon_latest_reply.gif  view-source:
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/templates/subSilver/images/icon_latest_
reply.gifalt=View latest posttitle=View latest
postborder=0//a/span/td

​I also looked at iMacros, and found a couple of tutorials about Data
extraction for URLs:
http://wiki.imacros.net/Data_Extraction#The_Extract_command
and images urls:
http://forum.imacros.net/viewtopic.php?f=7t=5703​


On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org
 wrote:

 On 09/01/2014 03:15 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

 Yup my idea is that you have an array with the spam users, perform a
 search
 on them, and then fill out the page with the posts related to the spam
 users, and just have the macros select all checkboxes and press the
 delete,
 and go to the next page. That would allow you to get all the spam from
 that
 user at least in a smaller process.


 I was able to use iMacros to search for all posts by a specific user. I
 was able to export the text from the found rows. I have not figured out how
 to export the links to each individual message.

 Sadly, I must navigate to each spam thread and delete each thread
 individually. If I am able to figure out how to export each spam link, I
 can always use some other scripting language that I know well to create
 huge scripts that itemize each bad thread. I am able to post a sample
 HTML output if anyone knows how to use iMacros. To make things even worse,
 it probably only shows about 40 messages per page. The biggest hurdle is
 simply learning iMacros; it is a bit cryptic.



 Well is not really coding in Javascript since greasemonkey takes care of
 that. Remember that you only need to change the url for the page of the
 query result. Greasemonkey has a script called AutoFill where you only
 need
 to select the name value of the HTML control and modify it to be checked.
 The next task is to press the Button control to delete, and the final step
 is to go to the next query in time. Probably the URL will have a page like
 ?p=23 so is a matter of increments.

  Hmmm. Not sure that would help much in this case.

 The search part is easy. It then returns a page containing a table with
 entries such as this:

 table  width=100%cellpadding=4cellspacing=1border=0
 class=forumlinealign=center
   tr
 th  width=4%height=25class=thCornerLnowrap=nowrap
 nbsp;/th
 th  class=thTopnowrap=nowrapnbsp;Forumnbsp;/th
 th  class=thTopnowrap=nowrapnbsp;Topicsnbsp;/th
 th  class=thTopnowrap=nowrapnbsp;Authornbsp;/th
 th  class=thTopnowrap=nowrapnbsp;Repliesnbsp;/th
 th  class=thTopnowrap=nowrapnbsp;Viewsnbsp;/th
 th  class=thCornerRnowrap=nowrapnbsp;Last Postnbsp;/th
   /tr
   tr
 td  class=row1align=centervalign=middleimg
 src=templates/subSilver/images/folder.gif  view-source:http://www.
 oooforum.org/forum/templates/subSilver/images/folder.gifwidth=19height=18alt=No
 new poststitle=No new posts//td
 td  class=row1span  class=forumlinka
 href=viewforum.phtml?f=2  view-source:http://www.
 oooforum.org/forum/viewforum.phtml?f=2class=forumlinkOpenOffice.org
 Writer/a/span/td
 td  class=row2span  class=topictitlea
 href=viewtopic.phtml?t=368059amp;highlight=  view-source:http://www.
 oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=368059highlight=class=topictitlebuying
 Maxaman, Maxaman order code, Maxaman without dr/a/spanbr  /span
 class=gensmall/span/td
 td  class=row1align=centervalign=middlespan
 class=namea  href=profile.phtml?mode=viewprofileamp;u=294602
 view-source:http://www.oooforum.org/forum/profile.
 phtml?mode=viewprofileu=294602RobinColvin/a/span/td
 td  class=row2align=centervalign=middlespan
 class=postdetails0/span/td
 td  

Re: Link to oooforum

2014-08-31 Thread Hagar Delest

For the record, I could access oooforum today but full of spam at least for the 
first 15 pages in each section!

Hagar

Le 24/08/2014 05:21, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak a écrit :


On 08/23/2014 10:16 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

On 20/08/2014 Mathias Röllig wrote:

https://www.openoffice.org/support/ links to www.oooforum.org (The
(Unofficial) OpenOffice Forum) but it seems down.
If so (permanent down) the link should be deleted.


It is not permanently down, but indeed I edited the page to say it's currently 
offline. You can find a whole thread about it on this list, that moved to 
private conversations. So far, we haven't been able to get it transferred to 
Apache (which would be a good option) but it is still possible that it happens 
in future (near or far, who knows).

Regards,
  Andrea.

So was there any traction on this?

I was included on the initial email messages to Ed, but I have seen nothing 
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Re: Link to oooforum

2014-08-31 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Can you provide a URL.

On 8/31/14, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote:
 For the record, I could access oooforum today but full of spam at least for
 the first 15 pages in each section!

 Hagar

 Le 24/08/2014 05:21, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak a écrit :

 On 08/23/2014 10:16 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
 On 20/08/2014 Mathias Röllig wrote:
 https://www.openoffice.org/support/ links to www.oooforum.org (The
 (Unofficial) OpenOffice Forum) but it seems down.
 If so (permanent down) the link should be deleted.

 It is not permanently down, but indeed I edited the page to say it's
 currently offline. You can find a whole thread about it on this list,
 that moved to private conversations. So far, we haven't been able to get
 it transferred to Apache (which would be a good option) but it is still
 possible that it happens in future (near or far, who knows).

 Regards,
   Andrea.
 So was there any traction on this?

 I was included on the initial email messages to Ed, but I have seen
 nothing since...


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Re: Link to oooforum

2014-08-31 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:41:29 -0500
Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote:

 I can volunteer to admin the forum and police it for spam.

As I recollect the flood of spam was such that it defeated several experienced 
moderators working together. It may be impossible for one moderator to handle 
on his own.

 
 On 8/31/14, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote:
  Can you provide a URL.
 
  On 8/31/14, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote:
  For the record, I could access oooforum today but full of spam at least
  for
  the first 15 pages in each section!
 
  Hagar
 
  Le 24/08/2014 05:21, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak a écrit :
 
  On 08/23/2014 10:16 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
  On 20/08/2014 Mathias Röllig wrote:
  https://www.openoffice.org/support/ links to www.oooforum.org (The
  (Unofficial) OpenOffice Forum) but it seems down.
  If so (permanent down) the link should be deleted.
 
  It is not permanently down, but indeed I edited the page to say it's
  currently offline. You can find a whole thread about it on this list,
  that moved to private conversations. So far, we haven't been able to
  get
  it transferred to Apache (which would be a good option) but it is still
  possible that it happens in future (near or far, who knows).
 
  Regards,
Andrea.
  So was there any traction on this?
 
  I was included on the initial email messages to Ed, but I have seen
  nothing since...
 
 
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Re: Link to oooforum

2014-08-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti

On 31/08/2014 Rory O'Farrell wrote:

On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:41:29 -0500 Alexandro Colorado  wrote:

I can volunteer to admin the forum and police it for spam.

As I recollect the flood of spam was such that it defeated several
experienced moderators working together. It may be impossible for one
moderator to handle on his own.


I know you both know, but for the benefit of the casual reader, we are 
not talking about the official forum, but about a third-party forum 
which is not under control of the project. We started some talks to tell 
the maintainers that we may help if needed, but we haven't come to a 
conclusion yet. So the project does not have access to that forum and 
can't promote users to moderators.


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Re: Link to oooforum

2014-08-31 Thread Alexandro Colorado
So you got feedback from them, and they denied?

I mean this forum could need some help, the download widget on the
cover still point to 2.4.0 and many links are abandoned projects like
OOoMath and such.

On 8/31/14, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote:
 On 31/08/2014 Rory O'Farrell wrote:
 On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:41:29 -0500 Alexandro Colorado  wrote:
 I can volunteer to admin the forum and police it for spam.
 As I recollect the flood of spam was such that it defeated several
 experienced moderators working together. It may be impossible for one
 moderator to handle on his own.

 I know you both know, but for the benefit of the casual reader, we are
 not talking about the official forum, but about a third-party forum
 which is not under control of the project. We started some talks to tell
 the maintainers that we may help if needed, but we haven't come to a
 conclusion yet. So the project does not have access to that forum and
 can't promote users to moderators.

 Regards,
Andrea.

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Re: Link to oooforum

2014-08-31 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
More accurately, the owner is generally non-responsive (he is really 
busy and does not have much time for a hobby forum).


The forum is currently hosted on machines that prevent him from granting 
admin rights to the forum proper and I assume that he does not have 
things properly virtualized to allow sufficient access to update the 
forum proper (and no time to make this happen).


The problem with fighting the spam is that the moderators and admins 
are fighting spammers that can compromise the old forum software at will 
so with a volume of spam bots posting at will, it is a losing battle.


The owner told me on the phone that he was willing to do something about 
this (like allow a transfer, or help, or something), but I understand 
that he was not responsive when he was contacted again. When I last 
called him just to see if he was alive (really, I thought he might have 
died), he was surprised that the site had not been functional in about a 
month and said that he had not seen my email to him. For all I know, it 
was auto-filtered to spam.


I was just looking at the site, and, the first spammer listed had over 
500 spams posted. The only way I have to remove spam is one thread at a 
time. So, I would need to spend at least an hours (if I were able to 
remove 1 thread every 6 seconds manually). That is a single spammer / 
user. It would be more doable if I were able to simply remove every 
message from a specific user, but I don't have that ability.


On 08/31/2014 05:23 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

So you got feedback from them, and they denied?

I mean this forum could need some help, the download widget on the
cover still point to 2.4.0 and many links are abandoned projects like
OOoMath and such.

On 8/31/14, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote:

On 31/08/2014 Rory O'Farrell wrote:

On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:41:29 -0500 Alexandro Colorado  wrote:

I can volunteer to admin the forum and police it for spam.

As I recollect the flood of spam was such that it defeated several
experienced moderators working together. It may be impossible for one
moderator to handle on his own.

I know you both know, but for the benefit of the casual reader, we are
not talking about the official forum, but about a third-party forum
which is not under control of the project. We started some talks to tell
the maintainers that we may help if needed, but we haven't come to a
conclusion yet. So the project does not have access to that forum and
can't promote users to moderators.

Regards,
Andrea.

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Re: Link to oooforum

2014-08-31 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Can't you just remove the spamer account with all his posts?

On 8/31/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote:
 More accurately, the owner is generally non-responsive (he is really
 busy and does not have much time for a hobby forum).

 The forum is currently hosted on machines that prevent him from granting
 admin rights to the forum proper and I assume that he does not have
 things properly virtualized to allow sufficient access to update the
 forum proper (and no time to make this happen).

 The problem with fighting the spam is that the moderators and admins
 are fighting spammers that can compromise the old forum software at will
 so with a volume of spam bots posting at will, it is a losing battle.

 The owner told me on the phone that he was willing to do something about
 this (like allow a transfer, or help, or something), but I understand
 that he was not responsive when he was contacted again. When I last
 called him just to see if he was alive (really, I thought he might have
 died), he was surprised that the site had not been functional in about a
 month and said that he had not seen my email to him. For all I know, it
 was auto-filtered to spam.

 I was just looking at the site, and, the first spammer listed had over
 500 spams posted. The only way I have to remove spam is one thread at a
 time. So, I would need to spend at least an hours (if I were able to
 remove 1 thread every 6 seconds manually). That is a single spammer /
 user. It would be more doable if I were able to simply remove every
 message from a specific user, but I don't have that ability.

 On 08/31/2014 05:23 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
 So you got feedback from them, and they denied?

 I mean this forum could need some help, the download widget on the
 cover still point to 2.4.0 and many links are abandoned projects like
 OOoMath and such.

 On 8/31/14, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote:
 On 31/08/2014 Rory O'Farrell wrote:
 On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:41:29 -0500 Alexandro Colorado  wrote:
 I can volunteer to admin the forum and police it for spam.
 As I recollect the flood of spam was such that it defeated several
 experienced moderators working together. It may be impossible for one
 moderator to handle on his own.
 I know you both know, but for the benefit of the casual reader, we are
 not talking about the official forum, but about a third-party forum
 which is not under control of the project. We started some talks to tell
 the maintainers that we may help if needed, but we haven't come to a
 conclusion yet. So the project does not have access to that forum and
 can't promote users to moderators.

 Regards,
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Re: Link to oooforum

2014-08-31 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Although I am able to remove the account, all that does is convert the 
posts to have a guest user. I wish it did remove the posts as well.


On 08/31/2014 09:41 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

Can't you just remove the spamer account with all his posts?

On 8/31/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote:

More accurately, the owner is generally non-responsive (he is really
busy and does not have much time for a hobby forum).

The forum is currently hosted on machines that prevent him from granting
admin rights to the forum proper and I assume that he does not have
things properly virtualized to allow sufficient access to update the
forum proper (and no time to make this happen).

The problem with fighting the spam is that the moderators and admins
are fighting spammers that can compromise the old forum software at will
so with a volume of spam bots posting at will, it is a losing battle.

The owner told me on the phone that he was willing to do something about
this (like allow a transfer, or help, or something), but I understand
that he was not responsive when he was contacted again. When I last
called him just to see if he was alive (really, I thought he might have
died), he was surprised that the site had not been functional in about a
month and said that he had not seen my email to him. For all I know, it
was auto-filtered to spam.

I was just looking at the site, and, the first spammer listed had over
500 spams posted. The only way I have to remove spam is one thread at a
time. So, I would need to spend at least an hours (if I were able to
remove 1 thread every 6 seconds manually). That is a single spammer /
user. It would be more doable if I were able to simply remove every
message from a specific user, but I don't have that ability.

On 08/31/2014 05:23 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

So you got feedback from them, and they denied?

I mean this forum could need some help, the download widget on the
cover still point to 2.4.0 and many links are abandoned projects like
OOoMath and such.

On 8/31/14, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote:

On 31/08/2014 Rory O'Farrell wrote:

On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:41:29 -0500 Alexandro Colorado  wrote:

I can volunteer to admin the forum and police it for spam.

As I recollect the flood of spam was such that it defeated several
experienced moderators working together. It may be impossible for one
moderator to handle on his own.

I know you both know, but for the benefit of the casual reader, we are
not talking about the official forum, but about a third-party forum
which is not under control of the project. We started some talks to tell
the maintainers that we may help if needed, but we haven't come to a
conclusion yet. So the project does not have access to that forum and
can't promote users to moderators.

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Re: Link to oooforum

2014-08-31 Thread Alexandro Colorado
This might sound a bit out there, but a greasemonkey script can be done to
program the check out and delete of all the post related to the handful of
nicks.
That way it could automated and ran all night.
Another extension is iMacros
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imacros-for-firefox/

Which I guess is near your field Mr Macros guy ;)


On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak 
and...@pitonyak.org wrote:

 Although I am able to remove the account, all that does is convert the
 posts to have a guest user. I wish it did remove the posts as well.


 On 08/31/2014 09:41 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

 Can't you just remove the spamer account with all his posts?

 On 8/31/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote:

 More accurately, the owner is generally non-responsive (he is really
 busy and does not have much time for a hobby forum).

 The forum is currently hosted on machines that prevent him from granting
 admin rights to the forum proper and I assume that he does not have
 things properly virtualized to allow sufficient access to update the
 forum proper (and no time to make this happen).

 The problem with fighting the spam is that the moderators and admins
 are fighting spammers that can compromise the old forum software at will
 so with a volume of spam bots posting at will, it is a losing battle.

 The owner told me on the phone that he was willing to do something about
 this (like allow a transfer, or help, or something), but I understand
 that he was not responsive when he was contacted again. When I last
 called him just to see if he was alive (really, I thought he might have
 died), he was surprised that the site had not been functional in about a
 month and said that he had not seen my email to him. For all I know, it
 was auto-filtered to spam.

 I was just looking at the site, and, the first spammer listed had over
 500 spams posted. The only way I have to remove spam is one thread at a
 time. So, I would need to spend at least an hours (if I were able to
 remove 1 thread every 6 seconds manually). That is a single spammer /
 user. It would be more doable if I were able to simply remove every
 message from a specific user, but I don't have that ability.

 On 08/31/2014 05:23 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

 So you got feedback from them, and they denied?

 I mean this forum could need some help, the download widget on the
 cover still point to 2.4.0 and many links are abandoned projects like
 OOoMath and such.

 On 8/31/14, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote:

 On 31/08/2014 Rory O'Farrell wrote:

 On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:41:29 -0500 Alexandro Colorado  wrote:

 I can volunteer to admin the forum and police it for spam.

 As I recollect the flood of spam was such that it defeated several
 experienced moderators working together. It may be impossible for one
 moderator to handle on his own.

 I know you both know, but for the benefit of the casual reader, we are
 not talking about the official forum, but about a third-party forum
 which is not under control of the project. We started some talks to
 tell
 the maintainers that we may help if needed, but we haven't come to a
 conclusion yet. So the project does not have access to that forum and
 can't promote users to moderators.

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  Andrea.

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Re: Link to oooforum

2014-08-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti

On 20/08/2014 Mathias Röllig wrote:

https://www.openoffice.org/support/ links to www.oooforum.org (The
(Unofficial) OpenOffice Forum) but it seems down.
If so (permanent down) the link should be deleted.


It is not permanently down, but indeed I edited the page to say it's 
currently offline. You can find a whole thread about it on this list, 
that moved to private conversations. So far, we haven't been able to get 
it transferred to Apache (which would be a good option) but it is still 
possible that it happens in future (near or far, who knows).


Regards,
  Andrea.

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Re: Link to oooforum

2014-08-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak


On 08/23/2014 10:16 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

On 20/08/2014 Mathias Röllig wrote:

https://www.openoffice.org/support/ links to www.oooforum.org (The
(Unofficial) OpenOffice Forum) but it seems down.
If so (permanent down) the link should be deleted.


It is not permanently down, but indeed I edited the page to say it's 
currently offline. You can find a whole thread about it on this list, 
that moved to private conversations. So far, we haven't been able to 
get it transferred to Apache (which would be a good option) but it is 
still possible that it happens in future (near or far, who knows).


Regards,
  Andrea.

So was there any traction on this?

I was included on the initial email messages to Ed, but I have seen 
nothing since...


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Link to oooforum

2014-08-20 Thread Mathias Röllig

Hello!

https://www.openoffice.org/support/ links to www.oooforum.org (The 
(Unofficial) OpenOffice Forum) but it seems down.


If so (permanent down) the link should be deleted.

Greetings, Mathias

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