Check out the "Your Account" link under Members on the menu bar. Lots of cool things going on there.

1. You can change your email address and your password. If you do, let me know 'cause I'll have to put you back into the bloggers group before you can actually blog.
2. Don't want the world to see your e-mail address? You can have Conversant hide your real address and dispaly a fake.
3. Bookmarks: As you visit pages you can click the Add button on the menubar near the bottom to set a bookmark that will take you to this page from anyother page. No one else sees these bookmarks. This preferences shows you what those bookmarks look like. With a little effort you could add offsite links as well.
4. E-mail: Here you can tell CrustyCassette how to treat your email. Yes you can post to the blog or the discussion group with your email program. I'll tell you how below. If you can change font color, set bold and italic in your email client, then leave this setting checked to "no."

   If you can't you don't have an HTML capable email client. If you'd like your blogs to show color and bold, you'll want to set the preferences to "yes."

   The cool part is blogging with an HTML e-mail client means you can have fancy formatting without learning all that html I put in Blogging Tips.

5. Webserver preferences allow you to adjust the size of the editing window when adding a new message. This is not the window in |Weblog| however.
6. Want to read Crusty Cassettte in your email. Use this preference to make it happen. You can even decide whether to receive attachments and whether your email will be formatted or plain text.
7. Weblogs: Now you get to decide how deep that new message box is on the weblog. I made mine 10 rows deep. Gives me a bit more room. It is just pyschological, but I like seeing a bit more of my text at one time.

E-mail

So how do I send my posts to Crusty Cassette using email? First you need the email address: crustycassette-site@free-conversant.com Then you need to decide where it is going to go: If you are posting to the discussion board, then that's all you have to do. On the other hand, if you want it to appear on the weblog, you'll need to add the following first line. addToWeblog News That's it. I think if you reply to a message from CrustyCassette, it will automatically be added to the conversation in the Discussion Group so anyone may follow the conversation. Please remember that this is a public discussion group.