Admin issues: spam EZBoard Anouncement
[1/6] from: tbrownell:shaw:ca at: 26-Feb-2002 23:33
Noticed a couple posts i made are on Escribe, but didn't make it to my
mailbox.. which brings up a question... Why don't we move this whole thing
to a decent board... EZBoard.com is pretty good, sub-categories, proper
threading, shows how many have read your post and how many replys to each,
embedded html etc.. and it's free.
I created one just for fun, you can access it here...
http://pub64.ezboard.com/brebol
Requires signing up, but only if you post.
What do you think?
[2/6] from: holger:rebol at: 27-Feb-2002 8:14
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:33:59PM -0800, Terry Brownell wrote:
> Noticed a couple posts i made are on Escribe, but didn't make it to my
> mailbox.. which brings up a question... Why don't we move this whole thing
> to a decent board... EZBoard.com is pretty good, sub-categories, proper
> threading, shows how many have read your post and how many replys to each,
> embedded html etc.. and it's free.
The main distribution mechanism has to remain a mailing list, not a
board, forum etc., and we at RT have to keep control over it, for
a number of technical, procedural and legal reasons. This matter has
been discussed in the past several times.
The server our mailing list is running on is a dedicated server, just
for us, connected to two different Internet backbones through dual
T3 lines, so we have excellent connectivity and performance. According
to our email logs delays in email delivery are usually due to problems
at the recipient, e.g. congested SMTP servers.
If someone subscribes some web forum, board, archive etc. to the list
(as has been done with escribe, mail-archive etc. in the past) then
this is fine with us. However keep in mind that if the forum or
board has its own posting mechanism then mails posted that way usually
do not make it back to the main mailing list, so most users (including
the staff at RT) won't see those mails.
--
Holger Kruse
[kruse--nordicglobal--com]
[3/6] from: petr::krenzelok::trz::cz at: 27-Feb-2002 19:36
Terry Brownell wrote:
>Noticed a couple posts i made are on Escribe, but didn't make it to my
>mailbox.. which brings up a question... Why don't we move this whole thing
>to a decent board... EZBoard.com is pretty good, sub-categories, proper
>threading, shows how many have read your post and how many replys to each,
>embedded html etc.. and it's free.
>
Well, I am personally used to Yahoo groups, maybe because just I follow
two or three such groups there. But - have you looked at Steffan's Rebol
powered discussion board? You can look at it via http://www.rebolforces.com
Last few weeks, as I am trying to select my first digicam, I also found
out nicely looking forum at http://www.dpreview.com ...
As for Rebol developers, I thought that we could move completly to
Rebol/IOS - online chat, private messaging, extensible architecture, or
own world :-)
-pekr-
[4/6] from: jason:cunliffe:verizon at: 27-Feb-2002 13:39
$0.2:
I find the present eScribe mailing list web access is terrible for any
extended study sessions. Repeated slow html refresh times, and lack of some
threading options.
How about switching the REBOL list over to a better system ??
Mailman offer a great solution..
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman.html
Mailing list manager with fast web access to archives, and monthly gzip
archives people can download.
typical example: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/
It is well loved
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/inthenews.html
The gzip archives are brilliant anyone on funky expensive modem connections
[Europe]. But also for everyone wanting to use the list as database, not
just a daily message stream. Thus the list archives are opened easily to
smart data mining, and rapid tool development - something which REBOl excels
at.
ie: re-organization of collective wisdom.
Rebol mailing list is not only the community hub, it is also the major
active documentation source for new and hidden knowledge. [example:
Rebol/View how-to]
./Jason
[5/6] from: chris:starforge at: 27-Feb-2002 21:10
On 27-Feb-02, Jason Cunliffe wrote:
> Mailman offer a great solution..
> http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman.html
I can back this up 1000%: I run three mailing lists on my domain using
mailman: maintainance is a no-brainer (all done using web forms),
reliability is excellent (the only problem I've ever had with it
was when my hoster managed to max out their /usr partition) and it is
being constantly improved.
Chris
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[6/6] from: ptretter:charter at: 27-Feb-2002 18:25
Just an FYI - I have been getting 2 of every email for about 3 months now.
Paul Tretter