All forums posts are supposed to go to mailing list subscribers as well? I doubt that is working correctly.... I'm subscribed to the mailing list and I see only a few masks a day, sometimes none, and I can see posts here that never show up from the mail list. I have checked my spam folder and added the mailing list aress to my white list.
SMesserschmidt wrote: > Am 12.02.2014 10:47, schrieb Robert Osfield: > > > > Hi All, > > On 5 February 2014 18:56, Sebastian Messerschmidt < ()> wrote: > > > > > I offered myself already. But unfortunately I still got no introduction. > > > Personally I also think that additional moderators would be appropriate. > > > > > > I was hoping that the forum would be able to manage itself, which it did > > for the first few years of it's existence, but if volunteers can't > > volunteer to help them we obviously going to continue going downhill on the > > forum support side. > > > > > > Sebastian, did you specifically contact Art Tevs? > > > > > > > > > Yes, and he answerd on the 17th of September last year. He stated, that he > didn't have time to compose the email. > I can give it another shot, maybe he simply forgot to send it. > Also: I'm still volunteering :-) > > > > > > > As a wider issue, we keep bumping up against this moderator and management > > issues with the forum, without Art being available. I think we'll either > > need somehow to take over from Art who is really active and will be active > > over the a good number of years in the future, or move to a different type > > of forum that doesn't require the maintenance overhead. > > > > > > > > > I guess, that most of the overhead is due to some people not following basic > forum rules, so we need to approve topics to keep the signal/noise ration > high. > Since all topics are sent to the mailing list as well, we simply need some > filtering (I have the feeling that forums tend to produce more noise than > mailing lists) > > > > > > > The osg-users mailing list that I've managed for decade now is very low > > maintenance, it just works. We have occasional posts to the wrong address > > and an rare bit of spam get through via a hijacked mail account, but mostly > > it just ticks along by itself. So if users need support without waiting for > > the forum just subscribe to osg-users, it works. > > > > > > > > > > > We old-timers are used to mailing lists, and would also recommend the > mailing lists over the forum. Unfortunately most people stick to forums > instead of mailing lists, so we should not cut this end. > > > > > > > Longer term I think we probably need to move on from out current > > forum/mailing list arrangement. I'm tempted by googlegroups for simplicity > > of management. Suggestions are welcome. > > > > > > > > > I don't know if this would solve the "approval"-issues. I'd rather would > spent some time on filtering than on digging through a heap of ill-formed > questions/spam. > > cheers > Sebastian > > > > > > > Robert. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > osg-users mailing list > > > () > > > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > > > (http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org) > > > > > > > > ------------------ > Post generated by Mail2Forum ------------------ Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=58238#58238 _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
