1. RE: Anagram for Topica
- Posted by jxliv7 at hotmail.com Aug 26, 2003
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> Rangi wrote: > have you tried to search the archives at the RDS site...? i've found i've gotten excellent results, although sometimes the posters need to be more 'specific' with their subject lines. plus, sometimes it's worth it to just download apps under a certain category and see what they do. again, i've learned a lot that way. > > Now who can suggest the "best" anagram for TOPICA. Something along the > lines of this one for FORD (Fix Or Repair Daily). > try http://www.anagramgenius.com/server.html you could try "topica" or "topica sucks" or "Euphoria rules"... -- jon
2. RE: Anagram for Topica
- Posted by Rangi <totorangi at hotmail.com> Aug 26, 2003
- 411 views
Agreed. The RDS search is much better and I use nothing else. However, even though it usually turns up a useful post, it then has no easy means of finding if there were other responses to the same post. You either have to scroll thru pages of unrelated stuff to find the gems, or have to resort to more searches around that date to find if there was anything else posted. Catering for advanced search criteria would help as well. Ken Rhodes wrote: > > > Topica's search facility is not very good, and only > includes the past year of messages. Use the RDS search > at http://www.rapideuphoria.com/listserv.htm > --- Rangi <totorangi at hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Trying to find the answer to the previous post has > > convinced me that > > until Topica arranges posts by threads, it will be > > frustratingly useless > > as an archive. This is so disappointing when there > > is such a wealth of > > information buried in old posts. It should be a > > treasure trove for > > newbies but is currently more of a turn off. > cut rest>
3. RE: Anagram for Topica
- Posted by Peter Willems <peter at integratedmoves.com> Aug 27, 2003
- 409 views
euman at bellsouth.net wrote: <snip> > One of these you can do now (sortof) at the end of each topic there is > a link that will allow you to watch that topic and when someone post a > new message you should receive an email letting you know there is a > reply or new message to be read. Unfortunately, the forum only sends a notification, not the actual posted message. > As for accepting Email, Its doable but it would take hands-on work > Im certain an email guru could share how this might work and possiibly > share some code that I could tweak so that those emails are inserted > into the database. This is very tricky, as the e-mail needs to have certain information that the forum-software can use to determine the correct area to post the message to. I think it might not be to late to re-assess the choice of forum software. Tmo the forum you are currently using is one of the least functional ones. It's predesessor YABB has much more to offer already (I'm running a YABB board myself) but there are even better ones like Ikonboard. http://www.yabbforum.org http://www.ikonboard.com I'm also running a Discus based forum. Discus is the only forum software I've seen so far that can handle posting through e-mail, but as I said it's tricky to set up. It also has the best features to track new postings combined with an incredible amount of user specific setting for what you want to track. You can even restrict it's search function to specific areas of interest. http://www.discusware.com Yet another option to think about is to use a WikiWiki web instead of a forum. It is the upcoming technology for web collaboration. If you are aiming at accumulating knowledge in a searchable way then this is the best way to do it tmo. A very functional wiki is Twiki. It also has e-mail integration. http://twiki.org Hans Peter Willems
4. RE: Anagram for Topica
- Posted by euman at bellsouth.net Aug 27, 2003
- 425 views
--Alt-Boundary-1793.23078390 Content-description: Mail message body On 27 Aug 2003 at 9:32, Peter Willems wrote: > Hans Peter Willems > > <big snip> I think I'll stick with phpBB2, thanks for the forum tour there/ Euman --Alt-Boundary-1793.23078390 Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body <?xml version="1.0" ?><html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">On 27 Aug 2003 at 9:32, Peter Willems wrote:</span></font></div> <div align="left"><br/> </div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Hans Peter Willems</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> <big snip></span></font></div> <div align="left"><br/> </div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">I think I'll stick with phpBB2, thanks for the forum tour there/</span></font></div> <div align="left"><br/> </div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Euman</span></font></div> --Alt-Boundary-1793.23078390--
5. RE: Anagram for Topica
- Posted by Peter Willems <peter at integratedmoves.com> Aug 29, 2003
- 425 views
Juergen Luethje wrote: > Peter Willems wrote: > > > euman at bellsouth.net wrote: > > > > <snip> > >> One of these you can do now (sortof) at the end of each topic there is > >> a link that will allow you to watch that topic and when someone post a > >> new message you should receive an email letting you know there is a > >> reply or new message to be read. > > > > Unfortunately, the forum only sends a notification, not the actual > > posted message. > > If anyone wants to get e-mails that contain the actual posted message, > not only a notification that somwhere else is a message for you, there > is a great invention called "mailing list". Yep, and many forums have a "mailing list" integrated to their message system.... but wait, there's more (always wanted to say that <grin>)... when you use a forum as a mailing list you can actually subscribe to separate discussions instead of getting ALL the messages including the ones you don't want. Now **THAT** is a great invention Hans Peter Willems
6. RE: Anagram for Topica
- Posted by Peter Willems <peter at integratedmoves.com> Aug 29, 2003
- 417 views
Juergen Luethje wrote: > Peter Willems wrote: <snip> > > Yep, and many forums have a "mailing list" integrated to their > > message system.... but wait, there's more (always wanted to say > > that <grin>)... when you use a forum as a mailing list you can > > actually subscribe to separate discussions instead of getting > > ALL the messages including the ones you don't want. > > > > Now **THAT** is a great invention > Agreed. What's it's name, and where can we find it? The best one I know (and I'm running one myself) that you can actually post to through e-mail is Discus. http://www.discusware.com One example you can do with it: I'm running it for a community of musicians that use a certain studio software. There was a mailinglist at Yahoo groups but people where asking for a forum. As the developer of the software at that time did not want to set up a forum, I did it myself. Most of the community moved over to my forum (close to a thousand users now) but a lot of people liked the mailing list as well. On my forum we have a few announcement areas where stuff is posted that is of interest to ALL users. So I did set up a dumy-user on my forum that corresponds with a dummy account on Yahoo groups. I then subscribed the dummy account to the announcement areas for receiving messages through e-mail. Now when an announcement is posted on the forum, it is automatically send to the Yahoo mailing list as an e-mail message. Something like that could be done here as well tmo Hans Peter Willems
7. RE: Anagram for Topica
- Posted by euman at bellsouth.net Aug 29, 2003
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On 29 Aug 2003 at 13:53, Peter Willems wrote: Yep, and many forums have a "mailing list" integrated to their message system.... but wait, there's more (always wanted to say that <grin>)... when you use a forum as a mailing list you can actually subscribe to separate discussions instead of getting ALL the messages including the ones you don't want. Now **THAT** is a great invention Hans Peter Willems http://h2osoft.homeip.net will still continue to better itself. Things Im working on: 1) smaller code fragments for dialup users. 2) email watched topic replies (with ability to stop watching threads) 3) integrated spam control (Moderated forum) (I wont allow Off-topic discussion in a forum topic, I'll delete it This what you wrote and Im writing would be removed and considered off-topic. Off-Topic discussion can occur on the forum but look at # 5 below.) 4) No Virus spreading 5) You will be able to switch off-on Forum topics. (dont want to see Linux as a Forum topic, have it removed with one click later you decide you want in on the linux discussion enable it with one click.) 6) The forum is brought to you Free of charge with no advertising (simply because Ive loved Euphoria, programming in it (I think) 6+ years) 7) Topica users have requested a better alternative. (my forum may not be now at this second PERFECT but those kind people who have asked questions responded and with feed back are going to get what they want. One way or another) You see, Ive put more than just a small amount of time into this. Ive actually thought about it and the other thing is, Im capable of making it happen....(although Im no magician) DEPF will be the utlimate choice for many Euphoria customers. Regards, Euman
8. RE: Anagram for Topica
- Posted by Peter Willems <peter at integratedmoves.com> Aug 31, 2003
- 413 views
Juergen Luethje wrote: <snip> > That sounds interesting. Is all this possible with the freeware version, > or only with the PRO version? This works with the freeware version. The pro version has options to have pasword protected areas and a subscription queue as far as I can remember. Alsmost everything else is included in the free version as well. Hans Peter Willems