OpenEuphoria

Re: Anagram for Topica

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> Aug 29, 2003
• 426 views

Peter Willems wrote:

> 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

That sounds interesting. Is all this possible with the freeware version,
or only with the PRO version?

Regards,
   Juergen

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