You can choose to look at all the messages a given person has written. Just put his/her name or email in the search list. Or you can look for messages on a given topic. If you want to see what people have written about being "fat," just put "fat" into the search criteria line.
When you have selected your choices for personalized viewing, "View Message Index" will get those messages for you.
Subscribing to the Digest
If you subscribe to the forum, you will receive in your email every day or two digests of all the posts that have been posted since the last digest. This may drive you crazy or it may be the perfect way to save the posts you most like for future reference. Remember posts are deleted over time, so if you don't want to lose them, subscribe, please.
Posting on the Forum
The forum is set up for you to write your message, see what it will look like and make changes before you post it.
Posting a Message
The "Post A New Message" section of the forum page is for adding a new topic to the forum. After putting your name, email and subject in the labelled boxes, type in the message section what you wish to share.
If you prefer to not show your email, leave it off. If you include it, Forum readers can see it by clicking on your *blue* name and respond to you privately by email. It must be included if you choose to be notified by email when someone responds to your post.
Enter your thoughts in the Message Box, using the "Return" or "Enter" key twice to start a new paragraph or skip a line.
Please be liberal in your use of the Enter key to make new paragraphs. It is much easier to read and understand what you are saying if there are several paragraphs rather than everything all in one.
Once you have written your post you can see it the way it will appear on the forum. Before you do, click the small box just underneath the message box if you would like to be notified when forum readers post a response to your post.
Seeing How Your Post Will Look and Making Changes
To look at your post, click the "Preview Message" button below the message box. This will take you to a new page showing your message just the way it will look on the forum.
If you want to make changes (or correct typos) use the back button on your browser to go back to the page where you entered your post into the message box. You can make any changes you like and then click on "Preview Message" again to see how they look.
If you click on "Preview Message" without making any changes, you will get a "Duplicate Message" error. Just use your browser's "Back" button to go back and make a change in your main message - any small change will do. Then click on the "Preview Message" button to see your revised post.
You may use the Back button on your browser and the Preview Message Button as many times as you like until you get your post the way you want it. Once you do, click the "Post Message" button. This button is at the top of the Post Preview page and also at the bottom of the Post a New Message page.
Submitting Your Post
Once you have clicked on the Post Message button on either page, your message is submitted for posting (but held until Kathleen gets a chance to read it). It usually takes from a few hours to most of a day to show up on the forum.
Posting a Response
To post a response to a message on the forum, use the same method with the "Post a New Response" form on the page with the message you wish to repond to.
Receiving Email Responses to Your Forum Posts>
Filling your email in the box when you post a message on the forum allows you to get email on your post in three ways.
