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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 Richard Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 9:25 PM To: 'Biblical Hebrew' Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] B-Hebrew Forum is Open! I missed it. Where is the new forum at? I think I'm glad about it. I would have easily been able to find this answer in the new forum. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:b-hebrew- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Penner > Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 2:53 PM > To: Petr Tomasek > Cc: Biblical Hebrew; Kirk Lowery > Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] B-Hebrew Forum is Open! > > 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:b-hebrew- > [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 > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2014.0.4142 / Virus Database: 3604/6706 - Release Date: > 09/28/13 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4142 / Virus Database: 3604/6706 - Release Date: 09/28/13 _______________________________________________ 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
