On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:22:09 +0100, Tony Hoyle wrote:
Tony,
> A web forum is a bad idea.. I'd probably just forget about posting
> as it's a hassle having to different sites rather than just open my
> email client every hour or so.
I can only second that. I stop monitoring this list the minute i
There's already a newsgroup. The mailing list is mirrored in the
gmane.comp.windows.devel.wix.user
newsgroup on news.gmane.org. There used to be an SSH version at some point,
but it started giving
me connection problems at one point, and I changed down to the normal one. I
can't remember wh
Bob Arnson wrote:
> A way with less work would be to allow only members to send to the list.
> But that means people have to sign up first -- that might be more
> annoying...
>
I have this with a simple script that emails nonmembers for
confirmation, so a member gets to post immidiately, a non
Christopher Painter wrote:
> No worries, I somehow guessed that you would automatically be against
> it.
As I'm responsible for more than 10 percent of the traffic on the two SF
lists (at least since I switched to Thunderbird), yeah, I'm against Web
forums.
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No worries, I somehow guessed that you would automatically be against it.
Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Christopher Painter wrote:
> Has the simple solution of a BBS been thrown up and shot down already?
Not yet, so let's do so now. Any solution without multiple, offline,
local, de
Christopher Painter wrote:
> Has the simple solution of a BBS been thrown up and shot down already?
Not yet, so let's do so now. Any solution without multiple, offline,
local, desktop, near-zero-latency, easy-archiving readers/writers would
get my vote against. Web-based forums lack the above,
Rob Hamflett wrote:
> Is it possible to allow read access to anyone, but only members can
> post? That way curious people don't need to sign up for anything in order to
> have a quick look.
>
I believe SF offers that option.
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Has the simple solution of a BBS been thrown up and shot down already?
InstallShield's community website just runs the standard vBulletin setup and
has image verification during the registration process to cut down on spam.
Considering my 10+ years of BBS experience during the FidoNet days
I think this option would be more workable. Having someone moderate each
individual message would
create a lot of work for that person, and if they're busy/on holiday/sick/can't
be bothered, then
the whole list stops working. Is it possible to allow read access to anyone,
but only members ca
Oliver Schneider wrote:
> I am following the list a while already and lately it seems spammers do
> so as well. How about turning on moderation for the list and have some
> strategically located (with regard to timezone) moderators approve any
> and all posts that are not spam. It's a technical mai
Hey,
I am following the list a while already and lately it seems spammers do
so as well. How about turning on moderation for the list and have some
strategically located (with regard to timezone) moderators approve any
and all posts that are not spam. It's a technical mailing list anyway,
so spam
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