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David, I agree often the simplist solutions are the best. If a decision is made to migrate to something else I will pass these along. I know social networking groups have their own personalities. Some prefer this forum, others the Elec-Trak.com forum. All for different reasons. Thanks for the suggestions!
In Him, George "Geo" Beckett > From: etpost drmm net > To: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu > Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:39:23 -0500 > Subject: Re: (ET) Replacement of the Elec-Trak.com site > > Is a web forum really necessary? We could use some supplemental storage for > files here, I guess, but otherwise IMO this email list is quite > satisfactory. I've visited the ET website. Maybe it's just me, but I found > it awkward and frustrating to navigate, and haven't been back much since. > > It's also much easier to administer a discussion list than a web forum. For > several years now, I've been managing the electric vehicle discussion list > (EVDL) by myself. It had 1800+ subscribers, although only about 25% of them > were really active. (We recently moved to a new server and only that 25% > followed.) > > If you still want a webforum, why not consider what we do with the electric > vehicle discussion list (EVDL)? We use Nabble.com as an archive and forum > front end for the list, for those who prefer that kind of interaction. > Folks can work with it like any other webforum, and it forwards their posts > to the discussion list. It also provides some limited file storage; but > really that's not much of a problem, with all the web file lockers now > available. > > Another way to get a webforum style interface to the mailing list would be > to use gmane.org. It doesn't seem to have the advanced features of Nabble, > but it's much faster. > > Probably someone will suggest Yahoo Groups, and that's one answer, but I > personally prefer a less commercial solution. Nabble is ad-supported, but > it's more subtle. > > I'm looking forward to hearing others' thoughts. And I do hope nothing > untoward has happened to Don. > > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Note: mail sent to the "etpost" address will not reach me. To send > me a private message, please use the address shown at the bottom > of this page : http://www.evdl.org/help/ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Elec-trak mailing list > Elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu > https://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/elec-trak |