RE: Forum

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Original poster: "Coyle, Thomas M." <tcoyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

My $0.02:

I frequent www.m5board.com - 3 guesses as to why, and the first two
don't count. :)

Please take a look (roll over Message Board, and pick any forum). I find
that format to be excellent for my personal and work habits. If I need
to take a few days off for work or personal reasons, I can catch up at a
later date without dealing with 1000 emails. Per-message moderation
isn't required, since everything's contained in separate threads.
However, registration IS required to eliminate auto-spam accounts.

I terminated my membership on this list about 3 years ago because I
couldn't deal with the format. At my new job, I've had a little more
free time to deal with it, and so have signed up again. Since then, I've
come close to quitting on at least 5 separate occasions. I may be in a
rare situation, but the life and breath of my work IS email, 24x7.
Having to filter out the list is difficult and tiresome.

Along those lines, if there was an issue with bandwidth or hosting
space, I'd volunteer to donate both. I have access to a huge pipe and
unlimited server resources. If this thing takes on some semblance of
life, please let me know if these could be useful. A BB-type approach
would be much preferred, and, frankly, I don't see any reason not to do
it, given the resources at our disposal (my bandwidth and servers, and
Chris Rutherford's implementation experience below as easy examples).

Regards,

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 8:06 AM
To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Forum


Original poster: "Sean Taylor" <sstaylor@xxxxxxxx>

Implementing a forum wouldn't be too hard, the bandwidth requirements
would probably be a bit greater, but I like a forum a bit better in some
respects, a mailing list in others.  IF we were to do a web forum based
system, there is also RSS for those that would rather have a mail-based
type of system, or we could have a newsgroup.  I just like the
hierarchical/continuous view.  Typically, I only keep the posts that I
find relevant or have interesting information.  Sometimes it gets hard
to follow a thread if the context isn't right in front of me!

Sean Taylor
Urbana, IL

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:18:34 -0500, Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Original poster: "Chris Rutherford" <chris1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>I have experience with Vbuliten and phpBB (php-Linux-sql).  Mailing
>lists are superior to bulletin boards because you get the benefit of a
>email client to do spell checking among other things.  Also, the
>moderator would still have to 'vet' each message before it's published
>so you loose the benefit of a instant web based system.  Also, there is

>something else that you get from a mailing list that you don't get from

>a web forum, except I can't quite put my finger on why mailing lists
>are better.
>
>I could write some kind of script to search all the pupman archives any

>maybe import the emails to a sql server, but again there is no real
>benefit in doing this as google does a pretty good job at referencing
>the pupman list already.
>
>Thanks
>
>Chris