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label doesn't go away even after I've read the messages and they aren't new to me anymore. How do I reset the number of new messages to zero?Is there a required software configuration?
So far, we haven't found any problem with using any version of the Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer web browsers, although it's conceivable that very old versions might not work. One thing that's important, however, is to set your browser to accept cookies! You won't be able to login properly otherwise.
Where to go to Login?
You can follow this URL for BVC. You will see a login screen there. But you should print out this page before you go, or else open a second window in your browser and keep this one open so you can refer to it.
What do I do on the Login Page?
There are three options presented:
Use the Cambridge Center's BVC home page as the starting point. Then follow the link to the Board that has the conferences you want.
When you are at the login page of the virtual board, set a "bookmark" (in Netscape) or a "favorite" (in Internet Explorer).
This is how you post a new topic to a conference. However, one of the conferences must be selected; in other words, one of the conferences in the left frame must be expanded to show all topics in that conference. To do this, simply click on the 
symbol next to that conference, or click on the conference name. You can then add a topic to that conference.
The right frame becomes the work area for the new topic. Don't forget to choose a name for the topic that will be descriptive to other participants browsing through the list of topics in the conference. The text of your message goes in the large scrolling text box. Note: you can embed HTML tags (including the <img> tag) in your message to add extra emphasis. You can also attach a file; this file can be any file you want but in order to be usable to most participants it should be a standard file format. In fact, it's a good idea to save your file in multiple formats and upload all of them (e.g. a document in Word format, RTF, and plain text; an image file in either GIF or JPEG format, as these are the two prevailing standards for the web). Click POST when you are done. If you left the box checked to perform a spell-check, you will have to click POST again when you've finished checking. Note: spell check returns a number of false positives. Presumably this number will go down as more of us use it and add words to the Dictionary.
You won't use this one very often. Click on it to force WebBoard to update the list of message or current users.
WebBoard has a rudimentary chat client based on JavaScript. We have opted to use this one instead of another based on Java which is also available to us through WebBoard, because it will work for more people. We may switch to the other, which is more like a real IRC client, if there is enough demand. Each conference has its own chat room.
Search allows you to search for a keyword or phrase in all the messages of a particular topic. You can also search for individual users by clicking on the link to Search Users.
Notice that in the left frame, there may be a number of conferences with a label of . And those labels persist even after you have read the messages. WebBoard requires that you explicitly tell it to mark all the messages in a conference as "read" before that label will disappear. When you click the Mark All Read button in the menubar, the right frame shows a list of all the conferences on the board, and the number of new messages for each. You can mark these on a conference-by-conference basis, or you can click the link that says Mark All Conferences Read.
There are many more WebBoard commands than will fit in the menubar. So the software designers clustered the ones that are used less often and put them in a list you access by clicking the More... button.
This is how you add Professional Information to your profile, and how you give yourself a clever signature. Note that you can embed HTML tags in your profile and in your signature. You can even embed a picture of yourself in your profile by using the tag. Your signature should be relatively brief, and must avoid blatant commercialism (although it's okay to state your affiliation).
You can also determine which of three formats to get e-mail mailing lists if you sign up for any:
You can be notified every time a new message is posted to one of the conference. This is how you determine which of the conferences you monitor in this way.
Check the boxes for each of the conferences you want to receive as a mailing list. The format will be determined by what you chose in your profile. If you don't want any of this showing up in your inbox, just don't click on any boxes.
You can see who is logged in right now.
You can see who has been logged in since midnight (EST).
You can look for other participants in BVC. Hint: pay attention to whether the First Name or Last Name radio button is clicked before doing a search, and if you choose to Show By First Name, keep in mind that what it's looking for (first name). Personally, I find the Show... option less useful, since I don't know whether a participant has signed up using Dick or Richard.
This is based on total logins.
This is based on the number of posts (including replies). You can see who's contributing most to the content of BVC.
This is redundant with clicking on the # New Messages link in the left frame. It reduces the nested list of conferences, topics, and replies to just the ones that it thinks you haven't read (see "Mark All Read")
Reduces the list of conferences, topics and replies to just the ones posted today (California time).
Each conference has a short (2- or 3-sentence) description. You can see the full set of these descriptions for all the conferences on this virtual board.
This will show you all the other virtual boards you have visited on the Cambridge Center's installation of WebBoard.
If you have more than one login persona, you can login as a different username.
WebBoard has a pretty good set of Help documents, unfortunately without a topic search function. Still worth reading when you have questions about how to do something.
This will terminate the current WebBoard session and take you to the BVC home page on the Cambridge Center's www.behavior.org site. There, you will find a list of boards and logging into another one is as easy as clicking on its name.
When you enter one of the BVC virtual boards, it may notify you in both the left and right frames how many "new" (unread) messages there are. In addition, some conferences will have the label, and in parentheses, there will be two numbers, the second one being the number of unread messages.
To reduce the full set of messages on the left side to just the new ones, you can click on either of the two new message notifications. Notice in the left frame below the Conferences heading, the two options Conference | You have # New Messages toggle back and forth between the two modes of presenting the conferences and their messages.
label doesn't go away even after I've read the messages and they aren't new to me anymore. How do reset the number of new messages to zero?In the menubar, click on the button that says Mark All Read. The right frame will contain a list of all conferences and the number of new messages in each. You can reset each conference individually, or you can click on the command Mark All Conferences Read.
BVC is currently based on version 4.0 of ChatSpace®'s WebBoard product.
You have three options for replying to someone else's message.
This is the simplest way. Just click on the small Reply button above the Topic heading. You will be given the same composition window as if you were Posting a new topic. Go through the same procedures.
Like Reply, except that the text of the message to which you are replying is already placed in the message composition (scrolling text input) window. Each line of the quoted message is preceded by a >. You can delete any or all of the quoted material as you insert your own message around it.
If for some reason, you want to contact the author of the message directly without posting your reply to BVC, you can do this. Just recognize that you are bypassing an opportunity to add value to the discussion on BVC.
Each message or reply that is posted in BVC identifies the "poster" in two different ways:
Find the More... button in the menu bar and click it. You will see a list of commands. Find Edit Your Profile and click it. The page you are taken to is where you can change any information you gave in the beginning, and it's also where you can add the information for your profile. Don't forget to click Save when you're done.
Most of the conferences of BVC will be set up to allow participation by e-mail for those who prefer this mode instead of through the user interface of a web browser. However, this capability isn't automatically enabled for each individual, since most will probably prefer the richer experience of dealing with BVC through the web.
Near the bottom are three mutually exclusive “radio buttons” labeled Non-digest, Digest, and Digest / ZIPped.
After you make any changes, don't forget to SAVE your profile.
Choose More... and then choose Mailing Lists. You will see a list of all conferences on the current virtual board. Beside each one is a checkbox. Check the conferences you want to come to you via e-mail.
This could be a source of confusion, so pay particular attention to this. DO NOT try to reply by simply using the reply button on your e-mail browser! True, this will send a reply to “Listserver” but it won't be properly posted to BVC. In fact, it may be bounced back to you.
Notice that the e-mail you received from BVC Listserver and the way it is formatted. At the bottom of the message (if there are multiple messages in a digest, it will be the line before the next message starts), there is a very specific e-mail address which contains the name of the mailing list and the number of the post to which you are replying, e.g. mailto:radicalbehaviorist.168@www.virtualcommunity.org sends a reply to message 168 in the conference which has radicalbehaviorist as its mailing list. Reply to that address – depending on what e-mail client you are using, it might be as easy as clicking on the link that it makes for you out of this mailto: address.
In the previous example, we replied to a specific message in the conference which has the radicalbehaviorist mailing list. If you want to post a new message (start a new topic) in that conference, just send your message to radicalbehaviorist@www.virtualcommunity.org. You can always find the name of the mailing list in other messages you've received from a particular conference.
Suppose you have been interacting with one of the conferences at BVC, such as Notes From A Radical Behaviorist, and want to go check out the another?
This is not difficult! Just choose the menu button Logoff. You will find yourself at the Behavioral Virtual Community home page on www.behavior.org. There you will see a list of links to the other BVC board(s). Just click on the right link, and you will be at the main frameset of the other board; in most cases, you won't even have to separately login (if you do, remember to check the box that says "Remember Password.").
There's another option that's nearly as easy. Click on More... and then choose List Boards. Then click on the board you'd like to login to.
This is actually one of the more trivial issues to be addressed in the conferences of BVC. We behaviorists will surely want to refine the question: "what do we mean by 'meaning'?" [cf. Skinner, 1957] But being quantitative types, we may settle on an approximate answer of... 42! [cf. Adams, 1984]
We encourage you to participate in the search for answers to this and other questions of interest to the behavioral community, instead of just sitting home and waiting for the movie to come out. Imagine how your seminal article definitively resolving this issue once and for all will look on your curriculum vitae!
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