[clue] [ADMIN] Allowing CLUE members to start FORUM topics and add content

[Jon "maddog" Hall]

On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 15:13 -0600, YES NOPE9 wrote:
> FORUM capability would allow CLUE members to comment on various topics instead of using email.
> This would preserve the CLUE member interchanges of information.
> 
> How much is left to make this a reality on the DRUPAL 7 site ?
> 
> Gus
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GNHLUG, my user group, has had this discussion many times.

Searchable email archives such as those maintained by GNU/mailman

http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/features.html

are also methods of "preserving member interchanges of information", and
email filtering and digesting are things that can be chosen by an end
user which have no effect on the mail archives themselves.

Perhaps it is just me, but many times I see Forums where issues and
questions are brought up, and never answered because the people that
could give the answer have no real reason to go to the forum.  Or if
those people go to the forum, it is to find an answer for their own
question, not to answer the questions of a lot of other people.  Ergo
the questions still stay unanswered.

Whereas in an email list a person might see a subject line go past (like
this one) and feel strongly enough to take a couple of minutes out of
their day to reply to it (like I am).

However, it is your group, your email list and your (potential) Forum,
so at this point I bow out.

Warmest regards,

maddog