Re: Account Created + Our Agenda

Please see comment inline.

Shlomi Fish, 2004-09-23 20:44, wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 05:28 pm, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, Sep 21, 2004, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>>
>>>... SNIP ...
>>>
>>>8. Set up a web-forum on the site. (we might need something that supports
>>>UTF-8 really well.) I can also RTFM on how to reserve an IRC channel on
>>>FreeNode, and perhaps a Wiki would be nice. But naturally, we need to
>>>modify the site to reflect these new resources.
>>
>>Hmmm... we have the mailing list and it has not much traffic? Do we
>>really need one more forum? I don't think it would be used very much.
>>Instead I sughest to just use MHonArc or similar tools to render a HTML
>>view of the archived mailing list.
> 
> 
> A good idea as well. However, I want a web-forum because many of the new 
> people on the Internet, prefer it over the mailing list format. Setting up a 
> PHP-BB or Pun-BB forum (or perhaps something that supports UTF-8 better) is 
> very easy and requires very little maintenance later. But that can be delayed 
> until the site is ready for prime time again.

If you decide to implemen this; please make sure that
posts to the forum are sent to the mailing list, and
vice versa in order to allow users to decide by which
channel they prefer to follow the wml discussions.

IMHO, it would be less convenient to have two channels
to monitor to keep up with what is going on with wml.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Shlomi Fish
> 

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