Re: [ST] Moving the ST Digest to Yahoogroups

[Gavin Lawrie <gavin.lawrie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

On 21 Jan 2005, at 14:43, Heyer, Matthew A. wrote:

> I am happy to take over this list but if the majority of list members
> would prefer to move to Yahoo group...
> Rupert
>>>
>
> If we were on a yahoogroup, we could take a vote..... :0)
>
> Matt Heyer

I too was one of those who offered to help out with support of / 
hosting of the Triumphnet system - I am not sure where those 
discussions ended up (they just seem to peter out...) but it did seem 
likely that someone was going to take over the site / list etc.  If so, 
I suspect that how the list is provisioned will become part of the 
plans of whomsoever this is.  However, one of the topics discussed by 
several of those who offered to support Eric at the time (including me) 
was to move the whole site to a new 'platform' (e.g. postnuke, Mambo or 
Xoops etc.) that would make site maintenance easier.  A natural 
side-effect of this would (or could) be to merge the mailing list 
membership and 'register' database into a single system.  Most, if not 
all, systems like Mambo include quite good mail-list systems linked to 
web-based discussion forum systems: often based on / similar to a 
common forum system called phpBB.  They also allow for such things as 
photo-albums, polls etc. etc.  Such an approach would provide Yahoo 
Groups style features, but also allow Triumphnet to keep control of the 
list membership information (and messages).

I participate in several Yahoo Groups lists, and 'own' / moderate 
another.  While the system works OK, our experience with the list I 
moderate is that few use the web-site facility, and those that do find 
the system quite hard to use (for example, it doesn't allow for 
messages to be clustered into 'threads' in any sensible fashion).  The 
weird mashing of HTML vs. Text messages, and adverts also annoy.

Anyhow - I guess it is up to Eric what happens - but I'd probably vote 
for an improvement to the current list software / web site over 
splitting site into two (Yahoo Group list and separate web site).

Best regards

Gavin Lawrie
ST'03


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