Re: forum rules and guidelines

On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:14:45 +0000
Will Godfrey <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:36:48 -0700
> "brynn" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >Hi Friends,
> >        As the new forum is rapidly being finished, it's probably a
> > good time to 
> >formalize the rules and guidelines for it.  If anyone is interested
> >in helping to draft this document or documents, please reply here.
> >
> >        Once we have a group, we'll decide exactly how we want to
> > handle this. 
> >When we started on this a couple of years ago, we used FramaPad,
> >which allows users to edit documents live.  I found it had the basic
> >features that we needed. Or I think there are other similar types of
> >sites.  Although I'd be just as happy to be more old school, and
> >exchange ODT or DOC files.  But we can decide as a group.
> >
> >        There aren't really any requirements to participate.  Just
> > care about 
> >the forum and how it functions  :-)
> >
> >All best,
> >brynn  
> 
> I would suggest using ODT. It may not seem initially any better or
> more convenient, and although not immune to bugs, at least you can be
> sure it will never contain any tracking code or third party
> advertising - both of which which are often vulnerable to injecting
> exploits on your machine.

ODT is awful. LibreOffice is pretty bad. Why not plain text, or if that
doesn't work for us, HTML?
 
SteveT