OpenEuphoria

Re: Change list to forum style

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Aug 12, 2003
• 417 views

Chris Burch wrote:
> While I am sure that Topica's mail list has done an excellent job, I 
> feel it would be a good time to move to a forum style of communication, eg
> 
> http://www.darkbasicpro.com/apollo/forums.php
> http://www.blitzbasic.com/
> http://coderforums.com/
> 
> There is an awful lot of stuff piped at me, and I have difficulty 
> sorting the stuff I'm interested in from the stuff I'm not. And there is 
> an awful lot of useful stuff!
> 
> The forum style would allow setting threads into subjects which you 
> could follow (eg announcements, linux, win32, database, general etc 
> etc). Most forums allow mailing of threads to readers, and allow searching.
> 
> There are probably many reasons why the format hasn't changed, but 
> please don't let it be for a (in a yorkshire accent) "We don't like 
> change do we Diedre?" attitude.
> 
> I realise this would require a change at the top, so how about it Rob?

I don't think I'd be allowed to install anything that fancy
on my server. Also, I've written a lot of (Euphoria) code
that depends on the current Topica arrangement. Code that
saves the messages for immediate searching. Other code that
filters out spammers, off-topic posts, duplicate messages,
foul language etc.

It would be fairly easy to create additional Topica
forums and handle them like we handle EUforum,
but we've discussed this before without
reaching any consensus.

Also keep in mind that if you register with Topica,
you can post to this forum without receiving any
e-mail from it.

Regards,
    Rob Craig
    Rapid Deployment Software
    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com