Petr, perhaps some of us can provide some pointers for those who, like you, are concerned that some functionality will be reduced. Some of the features you mentioned are in fact available in phpBB forums. If I understand you, the features you want are: 1. threads view; 2. display subject only; 3. search; 4. identify new posts (since your last visit); 5. identify latest posts; 6. local copies of all posts.
I have configured my MUA to read phpBB messages through RSS; I find this superior to reading them as emails. Perhaps we can do something similar with yours. Are you using Mutt 1.4.2.2i? Ken Ken M. Penner, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Religious Studies 2329 Notre Dame Avenue, 409 Nicholson Tower St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5 Canada (902)867-2265 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Petr Tomasek Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 4:28 PM To: Kirk Lowery Cc: Biblical Hebrew Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] B-Hebrew Forum is Open! On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 10:07:12AM -0400, Kirk Lowery wrote: > The new B-Hebrew Forum is now open! > > As previously announced, this email discussion list is moving to a > web-based forum. We will NOT be automatically creating accounts for > current members. If you wish to continue to participate in this > community, you MUST register and create a new account. > Dear b-hebrew moderators and members! I consider this very unfortunate. The web forum (and especially phpPP) is in my eyes very user unfriendly to the reader and provides much inferior user experience compared to what a decent MUA can provide (no threads view, no possibility to display subjects only, forced pagination which makes it very hard to search for something, and - what is the worst - the need to dive into every topic to see if there is something new and the impossibility to see just the lates posts from the entire forum). Moreover, with a mailing list, every list member has an access to all emails sent (so that no stupid censorship can occur). Everyone can have his private archive so that if someone decides to shut down the forum, one still have an access to what have been written so far. Therefore I will not register within the new forum, It would just cost me too more energy and time. However, if someone would like to continue with a mailing list on biblical Hebrew, I could possibly try to create one privately. Please contact me privately on this email, if you are interested. Petr Tomasek _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
