Hi folks. I've submitted a request to GMane <http://gmane.org/> to subscribe to the list. That way you will have an indexed, searchable, threaded, web-friendly version of the mail list.
I'll let the list know once it's live. Hope that helps, Dan 2008/6/23 Shawn Castrianni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 1. Don't most user forum implementations have an email feature so that you > can ask to be sent email of any posts? Everybody that likes email can > register for email notifications while everybody that likes user forums can > use the user forum directly. The user forum will satisfy both preferences. > 2. Why should everyone archive all the messages themselves duplicating and > wasting disk space when it could be done in one place by the owner's of the > user forum database? > 3. If the worry is that the owner of the user forum database will go away > and all of the messages are lost, then the same worry happens if relying on > other mailing lists archival sites when they go away. > 4. I would think a quality product would provide a means to transfer the > user forum database to someone else rather than just pulling the plug. > > --- > Shawn Castrianni > CM Chief Architect > Landmark > Halliburton Drilling, Evaluation and Digital Solutions Building 2 > 2107 City West Blvd. > Houston, TX 77042 > Work: 713-839-3086 > Cell: 832-654-0888 > Fax: 713-839-2758 > > -----Original Message----- > From: DuckPuppy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 3:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Plea for a forum > > Actually, I don't think I could even track 50 different lists if > there's sufficient traffic on any of them. I don't have that kind of > time in my day. I have about 5, and I end up ignoring most of the > mails if the subject isn't pertinent to me at that moment. > > On Jun 23, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Matthias Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 07:50:48AM -0400, Patrick Aikens wrote: > >> At least the replies on this thread have been mostly civil - I was > >> worried > >> when I saw Kili's reply that we would have a string of troll-bait > >> like his. > > > > Please accept my apologies for my rude mail, that was yet another > > bad hair day (happens too often these days). > > > > For the topic (which is offtopic, so this will be my second and > > last reply on it): can you track 50 different web forums? I can't, > > but I can track 50 different mailing lists (and I'm not even using > > something like procmail -- it's all flooding my inbox). > > > > Ciao, > > Kili > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and > privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any > review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. > If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information > for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and > delete all copies of this message. >
