Joseph Frana wrote (Monday 04 October 2004 8:07 pm): > I set up a filter in my e-mail client for all [fsck] emails, but I > still have a hard time relating e-mails to each other. People often > put a _"re: same subject"_ to tell what the subject is, and while > this helps me to know what the message is going to be related to it > does not give much info and it does not allow the author much freedom > to do anything else.
Most mail clients have a threading option, displaying threads in some sort of tree. This helps a lot. And as most people on this list use MUAs that have proper support for replies, threading gets done nicely. > I thought something like a bulletin board on > the website would be something that might be good. It will allow > messages to be organized well and archived. I got this idea from > using Moodle here at Truman (moodle is like a free version of > Blackboard). While moodle is not a bulletin board system it might > serve the purpose better because it also allows general news, > calender, etc. And the email does not need to stop. Moodle's default > is to email all members when there is a post. Moodle also allows > members to subscribe to an rss feed (info on what rss is at > http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10088_7-5143656.html?tag=dir.rss). YaBB > (*Y*et *a*nother Bulletin *B*oard) is another alternative. It is an > free to use and is open source (although I do not know if it is GPL). YaBB is not a good solution, pretty much ever. Last I knew, it used flat files for its databases. While that works for (very) small setups, it gets very slow, very quickly. > One flaw I see is that in order to post the author would need to go > to a website (although I am not sure). E-mailing is quick and easy, > so this might be a downside. Just a thought. I would like to hear > what others think. > > Joseph Frana > [EMAIL PROTECTED] My thoughts on the subject: Quite frankly, I see no real issue with the mailing list. As I noted above, it threads nicely, once you enable the proper options for your respective MUA. Something like Moodle seems like overkill, as well as a solution to the wrong problem. Using a web forum of some sort seems like it would cost us a fair ammount of flexibility, as well as introducing an extra level of complexity. Also, most web forums aren't threaded, so it can still be hard to follow wide ranging discussions :-). I suppose basically what I'm saying is that I don't really see a problem with our current setup. -- Peter Snoblin - http://entropicaccess.net/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
