As a subscriber, I have been waiting for Tucows to move to a non email communication platform for a long time. By moving to Phorum, it allows me to use RSS, NNTP or the Web Based Forum. For me, email is the least useful, as it is impossible to keep track of threads or get things when I am away from my main machine (which is often). Thanks for finally doing this. It is a big value add for me. You can't make everyone happy, but you did make me happy.
-AL -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek J. Balling Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 10:59 AM To: discuss-list@opensrs.org Subject: Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE: Migration from Mailing Lists to Discussion Forums On Jan 17, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Ross Rader wrote: > One of our larger motivations was to standardize on a single tool over > here. Does this mailing list exist *for Tucows* or *for the subscribers* ? I always thought the latter. > Right now were using three or four different discussion management > tools - majordomo, lyris, phorum and fourth one that eludes me. > Majordomo has sucked since we first installed it, Lyris is way better > at > managing mass mailings than it is at managing discussions (especially > the way we have it configured) and the fourth one is basically EOL from > what I understand. Mailman. Very nice. Very popular. Open source, extensible, you name it. > Anyone using RSS to keep up on the ebb and flow will have a local cache > as well as anyone that turns on email notifications via their phorum > profile. Again -- assumes that someone wants to use some other tool to read their messages... ALSO, it means that if you want to REPLY/PARTICIPATE, you'll have to still jump through all sorts of web-based hurdles. Sorry, still not seeing the "value add" here, but seeing significant value-decrease. D [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
