Some people prefer forums, others like mailing lists. For those of you
who want to browse our list mail by thread in a web page, there is
always the handy archives: http://texascavers.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm.cgi
conveniently linked from http://texascavers.com
I guess I'm just old school, I prefer my email to come to me via an
email program. Web pages are ok, good for searching archives, same with
forums.
Butch, a suggestion on spammers, etc on your forums, lock it down that
new accounts are required to be authorized by an admin. A minor pain
for new users to have to wait, and for the admin, but it sounds like you
are already in pain :) Also, phpbb has addon modules to require new
accounts put in a security code (given via image, usually garbled) so
that accounts can't be automatted. If you need help with either of
these, let me know, I've setup both on phpbb.
Charles
Diana Tomchick wrote:
While I find the NSS forum to be useful on occasion
(http://forums.caves.org/), I haven't yet found unique information on
the TSA forum. Everything that's posted there seems to get posted here.
Most modern email programs allow you to search by thread, topic, etc.
so that's not a huge advantage for the forum. The big advantage (or
diadvantage) is that your posting can be around for a very long time
for lots of people to see.
Diana
On Feb 12, 2007, at 4:12 PM, Butch Fralia wrote:
And speaking of servers powered by alternate wind sources, uh energy
sources, this is a reminder that there's this neat forum set up over at:
http://forum.cavetexas.org. The forum was originally implemented
after a
discussion that involved many of the folks on CaveTex about how nice it
would be to have a place where off topics, on topics and whatever's
could be
taken. Many people (other than Bill Mixon) seemed to support the
idea at
first. I don't think many of the supporters ever bothered to register.
The cool thing about a forum is that threads can be kept together so the
reader can find all the comments and wise cracks in the same place
rather
than have to hunt through dozens of e-mails to follow the topic.
The poor forum hasn't seen much use since it was put up and frankly
without
it being use, it's more trouble than it's worth to maintain. Some
folks out
in Cyberspace have written programs that hunt for Bulletin Boards and
register bogus e-mail addresses all so they can get their porno,
drug, or
other useless website listed in the member list. Mark Alman or I
delete as
many as 30 of these a day while only 31 TSA members have ever
bothered to
register.
So Topic of Discussion! Do I uninstall it? or do some of these
discussions
get to move over there?
Feel free to take my comments seriously.
Butch Fralia
