I want to change various bits of wording around my drupal website. For example, 'add new comment' should read 'post reply'. Is the only/suggested way to do this to create new pot files and hence create a new 'language'?

When you select a certain number of 'comments per page', the links to those comments in the blocks or even when someone writes a new comment don't go to where you'd expect them to go - that is, to that comment. In other words, the links go to the node home page at comment #x but the comment doesn't appear on that page because the #x is higher than the number per page.

e.g. a link may go to:
node/7#comment-84

whilst it should instead go to e.g.:
node/7?from=30&comments_per_page=30#comment-86

I have a discussion mailing list with 3,000 subscribers. Traffic can run from 50 to 100+ messages a day and there are no attachments.

The hosting company I currently have say their servers cannot handle such a load.

Does anyone have an idea of a good company that could host this? Any other ideas?

Hi,
Has any tried to transfer data from the frontpage to the register page? I tried to use a form to post some data from "node" to "user/register" without success. (Sorry that I am not able to post some code here because I always get "Terminated request because of suspicious input data").

Thanks,
Lirong

Just a little suggestion. There is quite a lot of bad press out there over the spreadfirefox break-in. If, while surfing, you find someone spreading wrong information about drupal (how easy it is to break in... etc.. etc..), step in and set the record straight.

I was looking forward to giving Drupal a try from all the hype that I've read slites like slashdot and such about it superiority. its been 2 hours... First Impressions:
after creating my first user I was immediately directed to http://myhostname/?q=node/etc/etc instead of http://myhostname/[b]drupal/[/b]?q=node/etc/etc. I made a small change to /drupal/.htaccess which (I thought) Would fix this, and seemed to for a short time.
So I Went to the admin section... I had to delete the amazon_items, and marksmarty modules AND Create a drupal.help database (which I had to guess the proper structure of!!!) or else the module-install screen would just display errors. did that and proceeded with installing the new modules and I was again redirected to the main documentroot of my site instead of /drupal/... when I went to /drupal/ there were several mysql errors reported at the top of the page.

user error: Table 'drupal.attachment' doesn't exist
query: SELECT aid, title, description, fid, filename, size, hidden FROM attachment WHERE nid = 0 in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/drupal/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 66.

user error: Table 'drupal.flexinode_type' doesn't exist
query: SELECT * FROM flexinode_type in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/drupal/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 66.

not to sound trollish, but I'm thoroughly unimpressed and truly confused as to where all the hype about drupal came from. I could invest the time to try to fix these, but what about the strange url rewriting problem? and who's to say I'm not going to encounter a million more problems when trying to get any further with the install.