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CCIE Forum Guidlines

The CCIE Forum is a system for talking, in real-time, with other people on the Web. You can send messages with text, pictures, and live Web links, and soon you'll be able to send sounds and movies!

This user guide, like the rest of the Web, is experimental. Please be patient.

What do I need to use WebChat?

Any Web browser should work. Of course, if you use a text-only browser, you won't be able to take full advantage of the CCIE forum.

How do I receive messages?

Once you are on CCIE Forum page it's very simple. Whenever you want to recieve the latest in the conversation, click on the Chat (Send/Receive) button. Any new conversation will be sent to you, along with a few of the paragraphs you've already seen (for context). The new stuff will be near the top of your screen, with a red arrow pointing at it. If there is nothing new the server will tell your browser that, and won't send anything. Some browsers handle this by just leaving up the page you already had; others may redraw the screen anyway.

If the person sending something gave a URL for a picture of themselves that will be displayed to the left of their name. And if they included references to inline gifs in their message text these will be displayed too. Any hyperlinks they put in will be made live and indicated by a live word.

How do I Send a Message

All you need to do to send a message is type it into the big text entry area on the screen and then click on Chat (SEND/RECEIVE).

Your handle is your CCO user ID. It will be automatically sent for you.

If you want some image to show up next to your name (your picture, a photograph of your dog, etc.), then fill in the PICTURE box with an http:// address that points to the .gif you want to use. It can be on any machine in the world that is a web server. It's polite to not use too big an image and also to think of the sensibilities of others.

Your message can also contain inline .gifs sprinkled amongst the message itself. To do that, just type the address of the .gif just like above, but put it somewhere in your input text instead of the PICTURE box.

To send a live hyptertext link in your text, type in the full address of the page you want to point to.