Re: [ST] Moving the ST Digest to Yahoogroups

[simonb <simonb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 15:37 +0000, Gavin Lawrie wrote:
> 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).
> 

AHA I run http://sportstourer.org a very small and select [ :) ] web
site using postnuke, phpbb, mailman etc. 


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