[ELECTRON] members Digest, Vol 23, Issue 8

[Bob]

I would be interested in knowing more about this stuff and about setting it 
up, for the Common Good Awareness Project. and for use with a park trust in 
Govan that has been formed that I have to deal with lists, communications 
and such like. Ch Bob

On 14/01/2011 10:55, Simon Yuill wrote:
> In terms of a combined forum and email system GroupServer might be worth
> a look:
>
> http://groupserver.org
>
> http://onlinegroups.net/sites/tour/
>
> An overhaul of the EC site would indeed be good, and more people posting
> stuff there to keep it updated.
>
> best wishes
> Si
>
>
>
> Martin McGrath wrote:
>> I agree with Ben,
>>
>> if people were mystified as to what the electron club does then this
>> should be addressed via the website. It makes no sense to have to join a
>> mailing list in order to get a better idea of what something is. The
>> idea of a wiki for each group sounds good, and perhaps a general
>> overhaul of the site.
>>
>> I don't agree that a forum is a great way for new members to find the
>> EC, surely the existing web presence should be enhanced to provide more
>> information, as previously mentioned the wiki pages. Forums are however
>> a nice security vector. It's trivial to search google for forums which
>> are running exploitable versions of the forum software, a nice way to
>> quickly harvest potential targets.
>>
>> A system may exist which combines the functionality of a forum and a
>> mailing list. The best of both worlds? Perhaps. If one doesn't exist the
>> functionality to email each post to the existing mailing lists would not
>> be too difficult to implement, making this work the other way round will
>> be a little more complicated. If I have time this weekend I'll do some
>> investigating.
>>
>> I don't like the idea of people being able to edit their posts, this
>> leads to problems. Often people seem to delete post content entirely, or
>> edit them so much that any replies no longer make sense. Would edited
>> post have to be resubmitted to the mailing list? IMHO it's best that
>> posts are left as they are. If someone makes a mistake I'm sure we're
>> all grown up enough to either work out the typo or to post again for
>> clarification.
>>
>> If we were to have a forum, I'd prefer that it were kept very simple, no
>> avatars, no signatures, don't allow uploading of files (e.g.
>> photographs, documents), store them elsewhere and link to them if
>> required. Anything to reduce the overhead (from both the server and
>> client perspective) and maintenance. Often people don't take usability
>> into account, just because it's possible to have an Web 2.0/AJAX GUI to
>> a forum, doesn't mean it should be a requirement.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> On 13 January 2011 23:19, Clive Mitchell<bigclive1 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:bigclive1 at gmail.com>>  wrote:
>>
>>      I'm with sticking to the mailing list.  Especially because it does
>>      have an archive.
>>
>>      One other advantage of the mailing list is that you can download all
>>      the new messages and then browse them offline.  I know that seems a
>>      bit retro, but there are times that Internet access is expensive or
>>      limited.
>>
>>      With mailing systems like Gmail you can set up labels and tag specific
>>      keywords so that all the electron mail will automatically go into it's
>>      own area.
>>
>>      On 13 January 2011 23:14, Ben Dembroski<ben at dembroski.net
>>      <mailto:ben at dembroski.net>>  wrote:
>>      >  It seems like it's a mixed bag of responses.
>>      >
>>      >  I'm now wondering if introducing forums into the mix would complicate
>>      >  matters without making the club significantly more usable.
>>
>>
>>
>>      --
>>      Clive Mitchell
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