General discussion

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.

This is mostly related to the Forum and Comment modules in Drupal, though it might have relevance elsewhere.

When login is required to post comments (or reply in the forum), clicking on login takes the user to the login page. Once logged in, the user lands on the user account page.

Wouldn't it make more sense for the user to land back on the page where the user started (e.g., the page where the user clicked the "login" link)? I didn't see a module or setting anywhere for that already in Drupal, but I think it probably makes the most sense - anyone want to weigh in?

IgnorantNewGuy here. : )

Does Drupal have Private Forums as a feature as phpBB does?
Does Drupal have Flash Tutorials to show me what the heck I'm doing as phpBB does?
Can I place any advertisments I wish on a Drupal created site?

I am NOT trying to compare Drupal to phpBB to dis Drupal, only to consider my options.

THANKS for any help you can provide!
Scott