I say just do it... You can set it up such that you don't step on their toes. One of the forums can be for this list, the rest of the forums can be more specific. Participants can have the option, when they post a message to one of the more specific forums, to have it automatically post to this list.
Just be careful to avoid some sort of recursion problem where a posting bounces back and forth. Just my thoughts, Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Shafer Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 10:26 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: How About a Forum, I'll Supply the Space? I have free access to some of the best forum software around and it enables mail-list mirroring and participation in the forum via email in both directions. I've offered several times to mirror this list there but the response has been non-existent. I've hesitated to set this uip even though I have the software, the bandwidth, the disk capacity and the desire because: (a) RunRev seems to take the position that they own this list; and (b) without their permission, therefore, it seems ill-advised to mirror it elsewhere. On 12/14/05, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree with Dan Shafer in both of his opinions - the community is too > small already and that a mailing list is the worst possible vehicle for > facilitating the Revolution Community at large. A forum would provide > for all of the possible areas of discussion by segregating the general > topic categories, accordingly. The mailing list requires reading > through too much "quoted" material and too many "re: . . . ." topic > headings. It is a snap to find those topics you are particularly > interested in reading about and responding to, using the forum format. > I've got quite a bit of room on my service, and wouldn't mind supplying > the forum basics, since the "raw" forum format is provided by my web > hosting service. I'm not using it, so maybe the Revolution Community > could benefit from this, instead. The "moderators" could remain the > moderators. It would be an enormous convenience to me, a new Revolution > learner. > > I also strongly suggest refraining from using the "Yahoo Groups" format, > it is nowhere near as friendly as the "standard" kind. > > Let me know if I can help, > > Sincerely, > > Greg Smith > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan Shafer, Information Product Consultant and Author http://www.shafermedia.com Get my book, "Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought" >From http://www.shafermediastore.com/tech_main.html _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution