What a truly sensible post! On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 at 11:28, Joan Powell via LegacyUserGroup < legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> wrote:
> Yes! > > -- Joan Powell > > *From:* Peter Matthews <matth...@melbpc.org.au> > *Sent:* Thursday, January 10, 2019 8:01 PM > *To:* Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> > *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 > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ >
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