Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Jeff Duntemann
I don't know how it is elsewhere, but here in the US, more and more ISPs are eliminating Usenet access completely. Do you mean an NNTP server for FPC that people could access directly using a client like Agent or Pan? (In other words, without being part of the newsfeed.) I've used Usenet off a

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Ivanko B
BTW, devoted people for maintaining the WWW-site is a great matter :) ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Michael Schnell
On 09/25/2012 10:29 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: NNTP is still the most used public discussion medium on the internet, and for good reason - it works very well. +1 -Michael ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freep

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-09-25 09:01, Cephas Atheos wrote: I mentioned PHPBB because it's incredibly robust, widely used, has good security, is minimally invasive to manage, can be scaled reasonably well, people are familiar with it, and it works. My personal opinion is that I hate web forums! They are hard to

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Cephas Atheos
G'day Daniël, On 25/09/12 5:35 PM, "Daniël Mantione" wrote: >Hi! > >I'm fully aware of limitations, and happy to take take help, but please >understand I am skeptical to plans like "let's install PhpBB" and those >are not fundamental plans. I agree, change for changes' sake is just frustrating t

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Sven Barth
Am 25.09.2012 02:39, schrieb Cephas Atheos: On a related noteŠ The website looks really quiet, with maybe 3 or 4 requests per month. Is there a link between the site and the formal mailing lists? Or does the website work off its own set of lists? I noticed while looking through these list archive

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Sven Barth
Am 25.09.2012 09:33, schrieb Cephas Atheos: I'm seeing some traffic on fpc-devel and the other legitimate lists, and I did get a success message when I reposted my original message, so some things are getting through. I think you're right though, I need to change my response address. I forgot th

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Cephas Atheos
I'm seeing some traffic on fpc-devel and the other legitimate lists, and I did get a success message when I reposted my original message, so some things are getting through. I think you're right though, I need to change my response address. I forgot the banal horrors of mailing lists and reply-to

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Cephas Atheos
On 25/09/12 8:15 AM, "Jonas Maebe" wrote: > >The problem is that both in your previous and in your current message, >you are sending the mail to one correct list address and to two invalid >ones. Thanks for clarifying that, Jonas. That would explain why I got 2 administrative replies telling me a

[fpc-devel] Test message - please disregard

2012-09-25 Thread Cephas Atheos
This is a test message to check that the list bot is getting the correct address now. My apologies for the white noise. ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Tue, 25 Sep 2012, schreef Cephas Atheos: [My apologies for the previous message attempt - obviously the list server doesn't handle html at all, and I could have checked for that first. Sorry for the block of base64!] G'day everyone, As you may be aware, there are a number of significant p

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Sven Barth
Am 25.09.2012 00:15, schrieb Jonas Maebe: Again, that's one proper list address and two invalid ones. Additionally, fpc-announce is a list on which pretty much only announces about new FPC releases are distributed. Finally, you are not subscribed to any FPC list using the address uncleb...@gma