Mike,
I know you are very busy. I just wanted to ask when you think the option to email crosstables from MSA will appear?
This will be very helpful to our Afiliate.
-Matt
I’ve seen this option on other web pages, but it seems fairly pointless. You can e-mail the page with (IE) or (Netscape).
It’s not that pointless. An e-mailed crosstable can be more compact than a web form and could include some information that doesn’t appear on MSA.
Not all browsers do a good job of formatting for printers. (In fact, most browsers do a rather lousy job of formatting for printers.)
I do have a crosstable e-mail program for rated events, I’ll try to get it hooked in next week.
Why not add training wheels too? If you don’t like the print format, paste it into something else. (For that matter, you can get the same result with a copy/paste from the MSA page.) Personally, I feel like my intelligence is being insulted when I see one of those “e-mail this page” links.
BTW, while it is a little off topic here, can you get rid of that “postdata” warning when one uses the “Back” button on the MSA? It’s just an annoyance in this context, since that feature is intended to prevent double-submission of uploaded data.
As long as the POST method of transmitting data from the browser to the web server is used, that message will pop up when using the BACK button.
To get rid of it, all MSA forms would have to use the ‘GET’ method of transmitting data.
I can’t think of any good reasons for using the ‘POST’ method in MSA, so this may be something we can do the next time we add more training wheels.
Zing!!
Bill Smythe
The USCF had a little known feature to email the text of the printed crosstabels. The format of this was much different than the MSA displayed crosstables; specifically all info for each player was on a single line, which made it much easier to have the information parsed into a database. Our club (http://www.metrowestchess.org) used this feature extesively to keep our own database of all our events (back into the 80’s!!). We also used this text to post our crosstables (an example is at
http://www.metrowestchess.org/Compete/Monthly/Archive/2004/2004-11/2004-11_USCF.htm)
which contains all the info for all sections on one page.
Mike has kindly worked on such a feature for MSA, and I was just asking (as “gently” as possible 
) when it was going to be ready. I posted it here, so others would become aware of the feature too.
-Matt
A know of a few people who don’t use Outlook or any other email software. They only use online email. So that File>Send>Page by Email would not work for them.
You can, as you mentioned, also cut and paste into word or notepad. I have done this a couple of time when the page doesn’t have an email function.
Not sure why someone would be insulted by an email this page link. 
I find it very useful when I am on a computer at college or away from my own computer and perhaps don’t have a disk to save it and take it home. The email function proves very handy then.
I am assuming you do not have that problem and so for you an email this function wouldn’t be needed.
For a price I am sure someone could write a program to rid webpages of the email this page function. It can be done with advertising and many other things. 
Roughly the same reason I’m annoyed by instructions like “Pull tab to open,” “Do not grasp power saw blade while in use,” and “Do not expose your Apple LaserWriter to open fire or flame.” (I am not making these up.) – jh]]
Oh yes I know what you mean there. Especially the Iron labels that say Do not iron clothes while wearing them. 