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Re: NFC: Majordomo vs. ListBot, Egroups, et al.
Hey Jump the gun me..:) Never Happens ! :)
Actually I agree with you 100% on this issue. I started the egroups today
for one simply to give the NFC exposure to the egroups crowd nothing more
or less. It wont replace this list anytime soon and frankly I suspect it
will be a portal to this more active list. Egroups does allow a text
style format but to find egroups you need to be on the web :)...However
folks my discussions of things is NOT anything finakl its just my
discussions and musings. Josh runs the list...i however am an occassional
backseat driver :)
So we bow befor the list king send him gifts of toast and anchovies
Robert Rice NFC President
Save those Fishes, Join the Native Fish Conservancy
http://www.nativefish.org
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:56:53 -0500 JLW <JLW at pi_dune.net> writes:
> Hey Everyone.
>
> RR jumped the gun a bit. We had been discussing the idea of moving
> the
> list off of Actwin to a nonmajordomo server. I've gotten a lot of
> different feedback since the initial post about the idea, and it
> mostly
> reconfirms exactly what I had in mind. Right now:
> We will NOT, now or ever, move to an online message board. BBS
> died
> for a reason -- its a pain in the butt to have to go somewhere and
> get
> your messages. An e-mail list is nice, because it arrives in your
> e-mail. Anything else is a newsgroup, and we all know where those
> go.
> :)
> We do need to move forward. Majordomo is an old program that's
> starting to pass its time. For every e-mail you all see, I probably
> get
> about five to ten in my mailbox. I'm not kidding or exagerating --
> ask
> RR, Klaus Shoening, or anyone else who's done fill-in duty. There
> is
> ALWAYS an address on the list where someone's servers down or
> lagging,
> they canceled their service and didn't unsub, etc. etc. This is a
> hassel for me, though I don't mind it. :) However, future admin.
> for
> the list would find much difficulty in this. Majordomo cannot
> easily
> link to a web page for unsubscribe/subscribe messages. It can be
> done
> with forms or CGI, but there are inherant risks.
> For the moment, I'm happy with Majordomo, but am looking for
> means to
> fix the following issues:
> 1: Get something where subscribing, unsubscribing is easy.
> 2: Make the archive searching a little easier, something like
> Egroups
> has.
> 3: Add an option for people to just read/post as a bulletin board
> type
> mesasge, for those who do like Egroups/ListBot/etc.
> 4: Cut down on my own private e-mail.
>
> The most important of these is number one, and we're presently
> looking
> for ways to do it without having to work Majordomo commands.
>
> JOshua.
>
Robert Rice NFC President
Save those Fishes, Join the Native Fish Conservancy
http://www.nativefish.org