Yes! -- Joan Powell
From: Peter Matthews Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 8:01 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] We need a Forum !! I'm not sure we actually <need> a forum at all. Both mailing lists like this and forums have their advantages and disadvantages. OK, so our mailing list can't show images, but it has nevertheless been working very successfully, and simply, for many years, as have many other "Mailman" mailing lists in use today. As someone who has administered several forums a few years ago, and Mailman mailing lists today, I know that forums are a lot trickier and more work to administer. What would be in it for Millennia? Only more work setting it up, administering it, and coping with the many extra complaints which would surely arise. Yes, a forum or forums would provide extra capabilities, but would it be worth it? I can feel a saying coming on, but I'll resist. Unless this mailing list actually becomes not fit for purpose, I feel we should stick with it, just get on with it, and thank Legacy/Millennia for hosting it. It has certainly helped solve a lot of our Legacy problems and queries. Peter At 22:41 09-01-19 +0000, Chris Hill wrote: What Legacy and Millennia should be building is a single forum styled system - HTML web based system to replace the current systems of a 1990s style email mail list and a group within Facebook which cannot easily deal with linked posts. This is the way that virtually all other systems use; look at forums used by game developers, vehicle owner groups etc. There is freely available software to provide these systems, which can be developed to provide more functionality. These systems enable you to create multiple sub-forums within which your users can create posts, to include text and embedded files and images. Against those posts other users can create additional posts. Management of users is easy to ensure that only registered users can make or read posts; that some sub-forums or posts can be read-only to anyone; some can be limited to developers and testers etc.. And the existing mail and FB lists can be merged into the new system. Chris (From my Android) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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