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Uhm, he's right, I checked it. I'm using 1.1.3.

Edit. No mods, I changed some code but didn't install any mod.

Very nice! Minimalist and elegant :D.

The links on the right don't work with Mozilla (mine, at least).

Hola Marc . These last posts have been very interesting to read, and I fully agree with what's stated your first message. You pointed our several issues I dared not touch, at least until things calmed down a little bit.

1. About the "turn of events":

Oh please, do not turn this into a discussion about Iraq's war, that was not my intention --I just had too much in my mind and tried to give to the not-spanish people in this forum a view of what was going on in the country. About Iraq, I think we can all agree in that while it may or may not have been necessary (pointing out all the issues in Iraq does not help, because many other countries are in a similar or worse situation) it was not a *bad* thing. If Iraq finally turns into a civilized country, that is, more than before, the change will be positive. Naturally.

But Spain had no business there. Moreover, the majority of the spanish population was strictly AGAINST it, and practically noone actively supported it. Please remember that the U.S. acted on their own, with some allies, but this was not a "world against Iraq" thing unlike in the early 90's. I still don't know whether this was a war against Saddam, terrorism, for oil (hey! I've heard it so many times...), for the Iraqi people, to find those WMDs, or a mix of all and then some more. And most people feel about as confused as I do.

In the end, as MarcB says, we cannot assess the situation in Iraq from here. Even being there it would be hard to tell.

2. About Spain:

Just a few more things. The party in government was voted out, and the attack was the trigger, but the situation here is a bit more complex, and I do not have the time nor (specially) am the right one to do it. But let me extend a little bit to clarify a few things... Actually, they did not lose as many votes as one might think. Looking at the numbers, what really happened is that, first, *more* people took part in the elections this time, to vote for the socialists for a change in the government (most changes are due to demerits on the party in power, and not because of the potential of the opposition), and second, others that planned to vote parties without actual possibilites of "winning" changed their votes for the same reason. It may be rage, but it's not cowardice. And definitely noone thought this was the right choice to dodge attacks in the future. As far as I know, we have been dealed with terrorism more than any other civilized country in modern history except, possibly, the UK (and the US after 9/11). The spanish people are used to it, and we know turning our heads is not the solution.

I said rage. Why rage? It is not only that the government imputed the attack to ETA, which in the end was not true (or so it seems, I still have my doubts). It's HOW the did it. When I first saw the images in the morning (I happened to turn on the TV while having breakfast by chance, and I usually don't) I thought it was ETA. It had to be, bacause... for heaven's sake, who else? And it was acceptable for the government to blame it on them without thoroughly investigating the zone first. Moreover, there were antecedents that made one think that ETA had been trying to do something of this magnitude before. But by mid-day some reasonable doubts came up, and by the next day nobody knew for sure that ETA was responsible anymore. And then the real "campaign" started, with the party in government going so far to state that those doubting of ETA's responsibility were "anticonstitutionalists" (a traditional offense here, for historical reasons, and a grave one) and even "anti-spanish". Looking indignant, like it was high treason! More and more new leads came up but they insisted. Part of the press (specially public TV) was tightly controled and they kept in tune with what the government said, even ignoring new facts.

And all of that was too much to bear. It was not the strike (noone can stop that kind of terrorism, you may stop them once or twice, but there is no way to "nip the buds" here, specially when dealing with international terrorism). It was the lies and deceits. They have been operating in such a way for years, but during the last days it was, as I said, too much to bear. Let's say many people woke up, and many others took an unprecedented, one-time-only *true* interest in politics.

Let me add one more thing. The PSOE (the party of the new government) was contrary to the participation of Spain in the Iraqi war and its reconstruction. They planned to retire the troops in the case they were to win, which was unlikely a few days ago. And they'll do it. That is not cowardice, it is fair, and in that point the spanish people agree, as they agreed before the attack. And if Al-Qaeda or whoever it was targets another country, well, I won't be proud of it, because we, ALL of us, are the targets of this kind of terrorism, that looks for nothing but its own interests and benefits.

PS. It is true that the treatment of the attack and its consequences has not been very well *read* by the international press. Oh well...

Checked checked checked checked :-).

As a button, does the trick and is elegant!

PS. Not english-speaking, sigh.

Of course the confirmation that ETA was to blame I referred to was last thursday's. Right now most of us bet on islamic terrorism (Al-Qaeda). But noone know for sure, and it's very, very confusing. There have been declarations both from ETA (denying it) and Al-Qaeda (taking responsibility of the attack) but not "official" enough to be fully trusted. Elections ongoing.

Nah, a manager would be mastodontically boring, but an "unsubscribe all" option should be easy to implement.

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I don't get the e-mail notification now, but found an older one. I guess he means a "unsuscribe all" would be helpful, while in the notification there is only an "unsubscribe from this thread" link.

He's right, I guess, sometimes you'd like to get rid of all of those unnecessary threads you subscribed to in a moment of alienation. We've all done that (cough, cough). And it may be done with one simple link (I hope) in the same e-mail. A "manager" in the profile section is a different business.

Just note that that pops up when you hit "post reply", if you use the "quick post" option it won't obviously be there (b/c you can just scroll up).

Almost as obvious as it is that Rickard has fun with this kind of requests, he, he.

I guess it would involve a lot of thinking and maybe a few major modifications, I'll take a look at it whenever I can.