Seeking OS 9 programmers!

No, it was me realizing I am stupid for not discovering what you discovered! 🙂

Now this site looks useful for themes in general, though completely off topic of my question at this point! 🙂 So I've registered with yet another site - how many usernames/passwords does a person really need!?!?

btw, do you know how to disable the humangous volume of text I receive with each email from these Apple forums? Every single email that notifies me of a post or something similar has this footer:

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In short, here are 3 reasons why it's worth a few moments of your time:

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4) In the Subscribed Topics area, select the delete option.

If I take your adice and get rid of subscriptions then I won't know when someone responds. Is there another way to know?

Getting rid of that extra text should be possible, otherwise it's bad netiqette on Apple's part, quite horrible in fact. Since those instructions seem to apply to new users and should not be sent out beyond the new user phase. As well they may seem like spam in-line with an email, since the message itself is less than 1/3rd the received email size.

Your approach is a pull approach, requiring the user to constantly check that website, whereas an email notification is a push approach, meaning the user is notified when there is new content of interest. The latter is far more efficient in specific circumstances such as mine, where I don't spend a lot of time on these forums outside of certain questions. And as I am not an Apple expert I cannot really offer much advice to others yet so it would make very little sense for me to login daily and check for a blue dot and much more sense for me to receive an occasional email informing me of new posts. My approach conserves bandwidth, electricity, and environmental resources.

The portion that Apple adds at the bottom of the email that I referred to is useful for the first several notifications, or more precisely, it is only useful until it is read and understood by the user, after this point constantly repeating the information is of no use and spamous. In other words, bad netiquette.

Though I would prefer the blue dot notification if I ever do continue to use these forums on a daliy basis, though that depends on their practicaility as applicable to my purposes.

🙂

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I would be working on whatever it is I am working and iMail would make a sound, then I would check my email and it would be an email from Apple stating I had a reply.

Then because Apple has fixed their old and wrongly programmed site, the link would take me directly to the reply, and might even include the reply in the email, and the extra junk portion would not be there because the discussions database would disable the new user information after perhaps 5 visits to the site, or even better, after the user uses the None/Helpful/Solved feature several times.

Then I would click delete on that email, which popped up after I clickd on the iMail icon, and that message would be dealt with, and I would go back to whatever it is I was doing.

Total time spent: 1.5 minutes.
Total worry: ZERO.

I don't have to login periodically, I don't have to check for any blue dots of updates, etc.

How's that for efficient?

I am the kind that finds cures to diseases people like you seem to harbor and foster and nurture.

Complain? Yeah, this has reached a dead end, indeed. Learn what progress means - and here's a hint, it's not perceiving valid arguments as complaints.

Awesome advice, however several minor corrections.

It was me who asked a question and you who started a flame war that I merely respoded to in like fashion. As for losing the sneer, perhaps you oughta look up the meaning of this word, since there was no contempt in anything of what I had written.

p.s. if you couldn't answer my question on where to find Mac OS 9 programmers, perhaps you should not have responded, since thus far, my question remains unanswered and I keep wasting my time responding to you.