Re: Go to checkout only if login is successful

[Barry Treahy <treahy@mmaz.com>]

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Listen Chris, as a member of this list for roughly 6 months, the culture of this list is hard to
understand.  I belong to other lists for VMS, Unix, Linux, Roxen, etc. where a question is posted and an
answer comes back, even if wrong, its a best attempt.  I have asked, and asked, and asked questions on
this list and it is real easy to assume they entered the bit-bucket.  I see numerous others doing the
same, again no answers which prompted me to a comment/request weeks ago that solutions get posted along
with the original question to accomplish exactly what you mentioned.  That too, went without comment.

Other lists that I work with, if someone has an answer, they cross-post to the specific person and back to
the list.  I see very little of that here.  Additionally, if someone is interested in a solution that
seems to be difficult to resolve, those of interest mail the original requestor asking for a summary of
the solution in the event an answer is provided in private, and I've seem very little of that, and I have
received no outside interest in this particular problem or ANY other posting that I have made.

One can only assume that I'm either attempting something so strange that everyone else just shakes there
head wondering what rock I crawled from under, or perhaps everyone that is experienced is so swamped that
they can't help.

This is not meant to beat up on Mike, because he has his own life to live and I appreciate the work that
has been invested into MV on behalf of him and any support he receives from IR, but frankly he has been
the only source for any answers, and even those have been few and far between.

I'm a first timer and this was my first MV site.  It has not been simple and I've probably done a lot of
things wrong just get it working and those work-arounds may hit me in the butt later, but I feel that a
lot of these  frustration could have been avoided if I had a better understanding of the product, what I
could realistically expect from the list for support, and of course had more time for the project.

I do not mind sharing or posting solutions to questions that I've had to work through or around, but I'm
not going to take the time now to sort through everything I've asked in the past since there may in fact
be no interest in what I've had to do...

If someone, like Gideon, asks, I'll do my best.  He's already received several of my source pages.  Why
didn't I cross post back to the list Gideon's request, because it was sent to me personally and I'm
attempting to 'blend' with the observed culture of this list which doesn't appear to do that...  If that
is list policy, whether implied or explicit, I'm attempting to conform.  Perhaps as the formal docs for MV
are redesigned, some thought should be put into list etiquette and protocol.

I'm not attempting to make waves on this list, just trying to survive and get some real use from MV.
Sometimes the price you must pay for 'free' software...


Barry Treahy


Thompson-Jordan wrote:

> ******    message to minivend-users from "Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>     ******
>
> Why don't you could improve the quality of the free answers in this list
> by posting the code to the problem you've solved. It could have been that
> no one knew the solution. :-)
>
> Christopher Thompson
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> > [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Barry Treahy
> > Sent: Monday, March 01, 1999 12:16 PM
> > To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> > Subject: Re: Go to checkout only if login is successful
> >
> >
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Barry Treahy
> > <treahy@mmaz.com>     ******
> >
> > Gideon... This is exactly what I wanted to do, as a first time
> > MV user and site, and had to learn
> > the hard way as I received answers to probably one out of ten
> > questions...
> >
> > I have done this at the URL: www.midwest-microwave.com/order
> >
> > If you want to look at it and it is close enough to what you
> > want to do, I'd be happy to share my
> > source pages with you.
> >
> > Barry
> >
> > Gideon van Gelder wrote:
> >
> > > ******    message to minivend-users from "Gideon van Gelder"
> > <gideon@swingmaster.nl>     ******
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > There's a problem I can't seem to solve:
> > > I want all my customers to successfully login to the UserDB
> > before they can
> > > enter the checkout page.
> > > If the login fails, I want them to again see the login-page
> > again stating
> > > the [data session failure], not the checkout-page.
> > >
> > > Any ideas ?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > -Gideon
> > >
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