OpenEuphoria

Re: Forum not sending posts to Topica?

• Posted by "Unkmar" <L3Euphoria at bellsouth.net> Jun 11, 2004
• 427 views

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Hall" <barnacle83-euforum at yahoo.com>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 3:18 PM
Subject: RE: Forum not sending posts to Topica?




Dan Moyer wrote:
> But I like getting the posts via email
<snip>

I still choose to get the e-mails, too. I've used the web interface as
well,
and I think it's convenient to have both right now (providing Topica
doesn't
do something unintelligent again in the near future).  I think the ideal
discussion method for groups like EUforum is a Web-based message board
like
a few here have tried to launch, but this listserv gets the job done.

I disagree because I like to store my hundreds of thousands of semingly
meaningless
messages.  Now, this may appear redundant.  But I ask you.. Can you DL or
find
any of the files that had been posted a long time ago?  Many actually made
it through
the forum to the individuals that recieved the emails but the forum didn't
save those
neat little attachment things.  Those are usually just annoying 
pictures or
viruses.
Right?  Not in a programmers environment.  Those are likely to be tiny 
neat
little
tools that you may never see again anywhere else.

Andrew Hall

<soapboxrant>
Honestly, when I first discovered Euphoria, I was surprised to see that
there was no Web-based forum.  Most languages out there have a
well-established system like the excellent phpBB; communication in such an
environment is extremely efficient (not to mention well-organized).  I
keep
silently wishing that RDS would "officially" launch a Web forum like phpBB
to supplement this list.   I believe it could even be set up to
function
as a mailing list on the back end, sending posts made on the Web interface
to the list, and vice-versa -- much like what we have now, but more
robust.

I think the list does a pretty good job of being web-based since it is
searchable via the web.  Kind of flakey though.. Could use something 
better
and more reliable.  Though I think it is already a lot better than it was.
Besides.  How much are you and me paying for this?  I haven't 
registered in
over a year.  A 2nd version is due out.  I think my last registered 
version
was 2.2
or 2.3.

Note that I'm not trying to demean the work that Rob and Junko have done;
I
think the system we have now is the best that EUforum has had.  A system
like phpBB would simply take away the burden of developing and maintaining
a
homemade interface, while requiring minimal administration (as delegated
among forum moderators).


I don't know anything about this phpBB thing. I just don't like not being
able to
store the messages in a local searchable format. My Email.

PS: I read something about Gmail.  A google email thing that gives 1
Gigabyte
of email storage space.  It is sort of public though... They do scan your
mail.
Like that is any kind of surprise.

OK, I'm done now. 
</soapboxrant>

     unkmar