If Real would add xml-rpc support for their phpBB installation it should be
fairly simple for us to write a rb client to read/contribute to the forums
in a way that's more user-friendly (ftp://ftp.thezaz.com/rb for reference).
In fact, it could have a plugin architecture to add RB related rss feeds.
Anyone interested?
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: Why not rewrite forum to incorporate mailing lists too -
WAS:Important Information About Mailing Lists:
On Feb 05, 2007, at 16:27 UTC, Daniel Stenning wrote:
I really think a better solution would have been for RS to rewrite
the forum AND NUG software so that they both operate from the same
data.
Surely it is hardly rocket science to devise some code to intercept
all emails to the list and enter them into the forum database as
regular posts.
It's not rocket science, but it IS a lot of work. The only site I know
of that's done this (well) is LUGNET (http://www.lugnet.com), where you
can sign up for any level of the topic hierarchy as a mailing list, or
access it as a newsgroup (via NNTP), or just use it as a forum via the
web. This works very well for them (and they get a lot more traffic in
total than we do).
But it's a huge pile of custom-written software written by a guy who
has since disappeared. I wouldn't expect RS to have the resources to
redevelop something that fancy.
It is something that we as a community could probably do, but again,
it's a huge amount of work -- who's going to bell the cat? And what's
the point, when folks who like forums are just going to hang out on the
official ones?
If anything, we just need a mailing list (or several such, as we had
before) on some nice dedicated RB site. But again, questions of who
and where would likely be annoyingly difficult to pin down.
Best,
- Joe
And surely it isnt rocket science to automatically email posts made
to the forum via the web back out to the mailing list.
Mailing lists have a unique "dynamic" to them - thanks to their
"push" nature over the "pull" idiom of the forum.
Please put your brightest RS web boys on to this. Maybe RS can even
sell the resulting software as a product in itself.
Dan Stenning
On 5/2/07 15:54, "Dana Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We are finding that there is a lot of duplication occurring between
> our Mailing Lists and our Forums. As a result, some people are
> having difficulty finding answers to their questions since
> information is stored in so many places. REAL Software has decided
> to consolidate the NUG with the online Forums. On Monday, February
> 12, 2007, the NUG and other mailing lists will no longer be active.
> We encourage you to continue your REALbasic and REAL SQL Server
> discussions on the Forums.
>
> If you are not presently a member of the forum, please sign up today
> at http://forums.realsoftware.com! It¹s free to join and there are
> lots of topic areas for discussion, like Getting Started, Databases,
> Games, etc. We also have platform-specific areas where you can ask
> questions or start discussions relative to your platform.
>
> We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. We understand
> that some people prefer an email-based mailing list to an online
> forum. However, we feel that consolidating our lists into the
online
> Forum is the best option for the community.
>
> Thank you for your support.
>
> Dana Mason
> REAL Software, Inc.
> Marketing Manager
> www.realsoftware.com
>
>
>
>
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