HepCnet board scripts have a number of great features. We hope that these items will add to the enjoyment of the boards for all parties.

Below you'll find a brief description of some of the new features, as well as some explanations for some of the common problems you may experience or questions you may have.

Profiles
The boards support user profiles. These profiles are optional: you do NOT have to have a profile set up in order to post to the boards. These are simply a place to put information about yourself that you would like others to know.

Please be responsible with these profiles. The usual rules apply, and they will be monitored by the administration.

Passwords
In order to set a profile, you must set a password. This password will be required if you update or change your profile in the future. If you set up a profile, any messages posted under that same username will require that password as well. This means that no one can use your nick on the board!
Please write down your password!

If you have cookies enabled on your browser, then the script will remember your password for you, and drop it into the appropriate box on the "Post a Message" form. If you have cookies disabled, you'll have to enter your password when you post.

Pictures and Formatting
You may include graphics in your profile either by using the same link box that you're used to using when posting messages, or by uploading a graphic from your harddrive to our server. If you choose to upload a graphic, it must be 20k or smaller. Additionally, formatting codes (see below) may also be used in profiles.

Profiles Not Showing Up In The List
If you enter a profile, it does not show up in the list until you have posted to the board under that username.

"Smiley" Codes Help

Our forums allows you to assign certain "smiley" and/or format codes, so that you have more control over how your message looks, without having to know or use actual HTML codes! Below, you'll find a brief explanation of how those features work.

If you include certain ASCII "smiley" characters (also known as "emoticons") in the subjects or bodies of your messages, they'll be automatically converted to graphics, as follows.

name	code	pic		name	code	pic
smile	:)			frown	:(
Oh!	:O			Oh well...	:/
Big Grin	:D			Wink	;)
Glasses	8)			Tongue	:P
Angry	>:(			Indifferent	:|
Laugh!	:L			Blush	:B
Cool	:C			King	:K
Jester	:J			Viking	:V
Read	:R			Mad	:M
Devil	]:)			Real Mad!	>::
Yuck	:Y			Dunce	<:
Cry!	:~			Teardrop	:tear
Angel	:A			Angel 2	:A2
Blah	:blah			Smoke	:cig
Warning	:!			Smooch!	:sm
Disgust	:disgust			Fart	:fart
Homer	:homer			Oh Please	:ohplease
Nerd	:nerd			Wow!	:wow
Uh Oh	:uhoh			Stare Down	:staredown
Wave	:wave			Stare Up	:stareup
Smurf	:smurf			Birthday	:bday
Dork	:dork			Hello	:hello
Ignore	:ignore			Love	:love
Help	:help			New Angel	:newangel
Party	:party			Rolling on floor laughing	:rofl
Burp	:burp			Bad Breath	:breath
No No	:nono			Ponder	:ponder
Chew	:chew			Barf	:barf
Teach	:teach			Chef	:chef
Puter	:puter			Speak, hear, see no evil	:noevil
Dance	:dance			Teehee	:teehee
Eat	:eat			It's Cold!	:cold
Say Hi	:sayhi			Bonk!	:bonk
Butt face	:buttface
Snore	:snore			Party	:party
So Mad!	:somad			Pumpkin	:pumpkin
Voilin	:violin			Shock	:shock
Dunno	:dunno			Sad Eyes	:sadeyes
Depressed	:depressed			Stop	:stop
Freezing	:freezing			Sadness	:sadness
Shocker	:shocker			Ugh!	:ugh
Knifed	:knifed			Sucky	:sucky
Farmer	:farmer			Pimp	:pimp
Bandit	:bandit			Pirate	:pirate
Queen	:queen			Cop	:cop
Weightlifter	:weights			Anon	:anon
Dude	:dude			Director	:director
Army	:army			Witch	:witch
St Pat	:pat			B'day Cake	:bdcake
Guitar	:guitar			DJ	:dj
Nurse	:nurse			Silly	:silly
Censored	:censored			Car	:car
Alien	:alien			Dung	:dung
Ears	:ears			Hat	:hat
Chicken	:chicken			Cat	:cat
Pig	:pig			Tweety	:tweety
Bunny	:bunny			Snail	:snail
Toothy	:toothy			Happy	:happy
Turkey	:turkey			Boxing	:boxing
Preacher	:preacher			Celebrate	:celebrate
Balloons	:balloons			Monkey	:monkey
Fish	:fish			Doggy	:doggy
Puppy	:puppy			Bat	:bat
Fight	:fight		Gun	:gun
			Bear	:bear
Butterfly	:butterfly		Wolf	:wolf
Rodent	:rodent		Rat	:rat
Jackass	:jackass		Worm	:worm
frog	:frog		Hamster	:hamster
Baby	:baby		Stressed	:stressed
Idea	:idea		Moon	:moon
Thumbs Up	:thumbup		Bonk	:bonky
Bug	:bug		Agree	:agree
Cowboy	:cowboy		Hug	:hug
Super	:super		Pray	:pray

Christmas Season Smilies

NAME	CODE	PIC
Santa 1	:santa1
Santa 2	:santa2
Santa Waving	:santawaving
Santa Waving 2	:santawave2
Santa smiling	:santasmile
Santa sad	:santasad
Santa in sleigh	:santasleigh
Snowflake	:snowflake
Snowman	:snowman
Reindeer	:reindeer
Wreath	:wreath
Xmas Tree	:xmastree
Xmas Tree 2	:xmastree2

CLICK HERE for a printer friendly version of the smiley codes

Formatting Codes

We have disabled the ability to use HTML tags to format messages on the boards. But don't worry, you can still format your messages using the codes listed below.

The following codes are available to you if you want or need to specially format your messages.
(Unlike the "smiley" codes, these will work only in the BODY of your messages.)
Simply put the appropriate formatting codes Before AND After the text you want formatted.

[b] Bold Text [/b]	=	Bold Text
[i] Italic Text [/i]	=	Italic Text
[list] [*]Item 1 [*] Item 2 [/list]	=	Item 1 Item 2
[center] Centered Text [/center]	=	Centered Text
[big] Big Text [/big]	=	Big Text
[small] Small Text [/small]	=	Small Text
[red] Red Text [/red]	=	Red Text
[blue] Blue Text [/blue]	=	Blue Text
[green] Green Text [/green]	=	Green Text
[purple] Purple Text [/purple]	=	Purple Text
[pink] Pink Text [/pink]	=	Pink Text
[marquee] Scrolling Text [/marquee]	=	Scroll Text... Whoopeeee!!
[hiyellow] Yellow Highlighted Text [/hi]	=	Yellow Highlighted Text
[higreen] Yellow Highlighted Text [/hi]	=	Green Highlighted Text
[hiaqua] Yellow Highlighted Text [/hi]	=	Aqua Highlighted Text
[hipurple] Yellow Highlighted Text [/hi]	=	Purple Highlighted Text
[hipink] Yellow Highlighted Text [/hi]	=	Pink Highlighted Text
[sound]Sound File Name [/sound]	=	Adds Sound to the Message Note: Works for .wav, .mid, .au files that are on the HepCnet server.

Important General Tip

Never assume that your message will look the way you expect it to look! Previewing your message before you post it is always a good idea, anyway, but is even more important if you're using the above codes, since if you mis-type something, the message won't look the way you expect it to look!

Search Help
You can search for specific messages by keywords, messages posted by specific individuals, and by specific dates.

Setting preferences:
You can select which method you want to view the discussions.
"Chronological": Show messages simply in the order in which they were posted;
"Alphabetical" Lists arrange messages in alphabetical order by their subjects;
"Threaded" Displays show messages in indented lists, with responses directly beneath their parent messages. The "reversed theaded" display is the "default" style of many Web-based bulletin boards and is the style with which many users are most familiar. The "mixed threaded" display arranges primary messages with the newest at the top.
"Compressed" Displays show on the main index page only the first message of each thread; responses are available only by going to the primary message's page.
"Guestbook-style" Displays the full text of messages on the main index page in a strict chronological manner; "threaded guestbook-style" displays show an index page very similar to that of the "compressed" displays, but show the full text of all messages in a thread on a single page.

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1. Hep C Open Discussion Support Forum
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