Hi, I personally prefer the email-mode because it saves me times and there are no annoying username and password sign up and then there may be distracting advertisements and loud colors, etc. So the email format is fine by me. Thank you, Mike, for your service all these years!
Cheers, RaVen On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:26 AM, M.G. Devour <mdev...@gmail.com> wrote: > Floyd, thank you for your persistence. I know for a fact that Gmail > often tags list posts and diverts them to the spam folder. At other > times, people have reported posts not going through with no apparent > explanation. It's also possible the spam filtering employed at Eskimo is > rejecting some people's posts... In fact, if there are people who've > never been able to get past them I would have no way of knowing it. > > And so we have... > > David wrote: > > How this forum has survived is a miracle. Its just too complicated. Its > > time this list moved to a more stable and user friendly, website based > > platform. Only Mike can do that. He has the loyalty of the members. > > I agree! However there is one need I've never seen satisfied by any of > the options I've examined and would otherwise like -- preserving the > e-mail option for receiving and contributing to the list. Every time > I've looked into changing it, members have emphasized their desire or > need to continue to use e-mail to receive the list. I prefer it myself, > so I understand, but apart from this or other e-mail reflector systems, > I've yet to see a complete implementation. > > The model of how to do this seems to be Yahoo! lists. They have a > not-entirely-awful web interface, plus you can sign up for e-mail > delivery, just like here. The downside would be becoming just another > Yahoo! group, and the loss of ownership/control represented by putting > ourselves under the management of a massive, faceless corporation. If > they ever decide we're unwelcome, we're gone and there's not a thing > anybody could do about it. > > I haven't checked in about a year, but so far I've never seen an add-on > for any of the Forum software packages like phpBB or V-bulletin that > integrates e-mail subscription and posting. I think something could be > custom built under a system like Drupal by making a bunch of existing > modules work together, but I haven't managed to climb that learning > curve yet. And it seems that nobody has tried very hard to duplicate the > Yahoo! model in any open source project, so I must be fairly rare in not > really wanting to trust them. <grin> > > Even just building a web interface to reliably handle subscriptions on > top of this or other e-mail reflector software would be an improvement. > If I could bring the archives under the same roof it would be even > better... but by then you're approaching the complexity of implementing > Yahoo's model. > > Whatever the solution, I'd like to preserve the flexibility that would > allow me to migrate our group to some ISP or rent-a-slice provider > offshore if something happened to Eskimo or some domestic (US) agency > ever decided to crack down on folks like us. > > So, that's where I'm at on this. If I were an accomplished web coder, I > could build something that satisfies everybody, but I'm not and I > haven't. If you have any thoughts, suggestions, options, or know a coder > who would work for cheap or free, please lay it out there! I'd love to > improve the platform. > > Be well, > > Mike D. > list owner > > > > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org > > Unsubscribe: > <mailto:silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com?subject=unsubscribe> > Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/silver-list@eskimo.com/maillist.html > > Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com> > List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:mdev...@eskimo.com> > > > -- My Google Voice Text # is (720) 442-8725 *Quote: * *"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work."* Pearl Bailey
