ForumHowto

In Biomed Town (BT) forums are always contained into special folders called Forum Folders. To find out which forums are available in BT go to the Advanced Search page , go down to Item Type, uncheck the select all/none and then check only the Forum Folder checkbox.

You will see all BT forum folders, but you will be able to access them only of you have the right permissions. In general all forum located in squares are accessible by any BT citizen, while those located inside the buildings may require special permissions.

The subscribe link indicates that currently you are not subscribed to this forum. This mean that in order to read the messages you have to come to this web page each time. If you click on the subscribe link, you will signon for all forum topics, which will be sent to you via email as soon as they are posted.

If you want to know more about this forum, the best way is to click the contact moderator link and write a message to the moderator. If you are ready to write, then click post a new item. There are three items to can post: a topic, a poll, or an announcement.

Topics are standard messages, which can be replied/commented by other participants. Polls are a way to collect the opinion of the forum participants on a specific argument. The announcements are special topics that are kept highly visible; use them as little as possible.

Depending on forum settings you might not be able to create polls and announcements.

Attachments

You can also send mail with attachments, according these rules:

• one generic attach (doc, pdf, rtf, and so on ...)
• one image (jgp, gif, png, ...)
• one generic AND one image
• two image

all others configurations will be rejected.

Email From address

You MUST write email from the email address with which you've been registered on BiomedTown portal:

   if you receive a message with something like "Member not found" it is probably
  because you've written your mail from an address which is not the one registered
  on BiomedTown. So you have two options:

    - re-send the email from the right address

    OR

    - modify your preferences on BiomedTown changing your email address and
      re-send the email

Reply To

The Reply-To field is set by default to sender address, not to forum. To send email to the forum you've to write by hand the forum address (which is also in the To field) or, if your mail client supports it, you can use the option reply to mailing list or something like this.

Important

known bugs and missing features

• text written between square brackets [ and ] is deleted, so please use round ones instead
• the attachments send by email are deleted, while those send by web interface are sended regularly. So please write your mail as simple text, and if you need to send an attach, do it by web interface or upload it in some place on the portal and send the link (FIXED)
• the system is case sensitive with email addresses. So it considers differently someone@somewhere.org and Someone@Somewhere.org. Please send your email from exactly the email address with you are subscribed to BiomedTown (FIXED)