I have a question I'd like to toss out to the group for discussion/comment.
What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and converting
over to online/web-based forums?
- People would only have to subscribe once and they could access all the
*Gear forums.
- I'm getting really sick of spam. I think we do a pretty good job of
protecting the list members themselves, but the list admins get
continually pummeled with spam rates measured in messages per hour and
sometimes messages per minute ...
If we would like to move towards using forums instead of mailing lists:
- Should we manage the forums ourselves on our own FG servers?
- Should we use some other forum hosting service?
- Should we piggy-back off of a place like avsim.com (which already has
one general FG forum.)
- I generally favor the idea of local admin control so we can set up the
various sub forums exactly how we like, but that means additional setup
and maintenance efforts on this end.
- If we run our own forum software, does anyone have any
recommendations. (Bearing in mind that right now, mysql is hopelessly
hosed on our FG servers and a complete purge and reinstall has not fixed
it.) Are there any mainstream, quality forum packages that don't
require mysql?
Curt.
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Curtis Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt
HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org
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