>Nadya,
>
>Not to offend you, but why are you posting this? I think Jim had some good insights and I probably think there's nothing much more you can do on UT regarding the issues you have with tek-tips. If the sysop (yes, that dates me) says, "Too bad" and keeps you out, I'm not sure how we are supposed to help.
>
>Renoir
>

1) The more members send a message to David with the request to reconsider these actions, the more possibilities I would have to be actually restored.

2) I do care about quality of the FAQs, messages, etc. For instance, there are lots of cases, there I noticed typos in thread title or in the messages which were not yet answered. In such cases I sent a private message to either UT consultant or poster of the message. I also made few UT interface suggestions in private, not to mention several public ones.

Same with FAQs. If I thought, something has to be changed/added to the FAQ/API, I contacted the author.

In case of tek-tips FAQs I also made several suggestions/minor corrections (in ASP/SQL Server forums and members appreciated the comments and made corrections). Since I'm not a member of the tek-tips anymore, but FAQ has a problem in my opinion, I posted it here. I did try to reach the FAQ's creator with my notes, but didn't get a response from him.

In fact, I suspect (but could be wrong and wish to be
wrong), that he was the one, who red-flagged my posts and caused banning...

>>Here is the text in the FAQ as it stands right now:
>>
>>PRIVATE pnPages
>>LOCAL lcfile
>>lcFile = SYS(3)+".tmp"
>>lnHandle = FCREATE(lcFile)
>>FCLOSE (lnHandle)
>>WAIT WINDOW 'Calculating Page Count...' NOWAIT
>>REPORT FORM &cRepName TO FILE (m.lcfile) NOCONSOLE
>>ERASE (m.lcfile)
>>pnpages = _PAGENO
>>WAIT CLEAR
>>REPORT FORM &cRepName TO PRINTER PROMPT PREVIEW
>>RETURN
>>=================
>>Couple of observations:
>>
>>1) What's the purpose of creating and closing the file using low-level functions?
>>
>>2) Report FORM (cRepName) rather than REPORT FORM &cRepName. There is no need to use macro in this case.
>>
>>3) He should mention, that this should be used in versions prior to 8. There is also a KB article with different approach, which he should add to this FAQ to made it complete.
>>
>>4) Important line with pnPages = 0 is omitted
>>=========================
>>In several other FAQs I see, that he posted ideas from UniversalThread. In my opinion, this fact should be properly aknowledged.