[clue] [ADMIN] Allowing CLUE members to start FORUM topics and add content
YES NOPE9
yes at nope9.com
Wed May 11 18:25:54 MDT 2011
>
> On May 11, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Jon maddog Hall 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
I agree that searchable email archives is very nice.
Now if there was a way to 'push' some of the email text into the appropriate forum ???
Gus
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