On Wednesday 14 Sep 2005 18:03, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > 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.
I've used a 'beehive' based forum that was flexible and nice to use. Needs mysql tho... However, I personally find that forums invariably end up with too much graphics in them and take too much time to go through. I find mailing lists much quicker to deal with and certainly a lot easier to search but spam is a real pain in the posterior - I get a couple of hundred spam e-mails per day. Nearly all of them use spoofed sender ids, so a large percentage are bounces (doh! - when will mail admins stop forwarding this crap and just dump it). Trouble is, if you want to be contactable your address is going to be 'harvested' and spam-bombed. Hmm... not much help here really:( LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
