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

[chris fedde]

If we do choose to use a forum it'd be nice if there was an email
gateway of some type. I'm not likely to browse a forum and now that
spam filtering is getting as good as it is email has recovered some of
its value.

JMHO
chris

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Shawn Perry <shawn at redmop.com> wrote:
> http://drupal.org/project/mailman_manager
> http://drupal.org/project/mailhandler
> http://drupal.org/project/listhandler
> http://drupal.org/project/user_mailman_register
> Of course, none of these, and most other modules don't work for Drupal 7
> yet, so I don't use it yet.
>
>
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> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Jon "maddog" Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
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