why no forums?

[John Seth]

I've been pondering that myself in some respects.  I keep some of the 
messages from the list and could archive them to the web, but it's not a 
true mailing list archive.

I have mailman running on my system archiving another mailing list, 
which is handy and easier to manage.  Since the mailinglist runs 
majordomo, I'm not sure if there's an easy program I can run to make 
archives of email posted to the list.  I know there's one called 
Majorcool, though, I believe both the web gui and the majordomo software 
have to be on the same machine for it to work.

I can't archive old msg's other than the one's I've kept, but if someone 
else knows how to grab incoming email and archive it for web perusal, 
I'll gladly redirect my incoming NFLUG email into that archive.

AS far as forums and email, yes... there will always be two resources in 
such situations.  Then again, looking at it from another perspective, 
there's hundreds of thousands of resources now, what's one more? lol. 
Personally, I like email lists since I can often get faster responses to 
issues I have.  On the other hand, I like forums cuz they don't fill up 
my inbox.  There's two sides to every story, and I have no intention of 
interfering or causing issues with the mailing list.  I think I've been 
a member for around 3-4 years now, it's a great place with great people.

--  Tony Evans


Greg Neumann wrote:
> John Seth wrote:
> 
>> Ok, I've been debating this for months ...
>>
>> I found nflug.com was open and unpurchased almost a year ago, and 
>> bought it.  I figured, what the heck, if someone on the mailing list 
>> wanted it to point to nflug.org, it was there.  Being bored one day, I 
>> put it up on my server to tinker with PostNuke and other things...
>>
>> Today, after this question was posed, I went back to it and updated 
>> the site and got it working properly.  Thus, www.nflug.com is 
>> available as a _counterpart_ to NFLUG.org.  I mean no disrespect to 
>> anyone on the list, nor the folks running the .org site, it's up and 
>> running as a companion site.  It is on a linux box, running PostNuke 
>> with the PNphpBB forums, and is far from updated.  Feel free to use it 
>> _in addition to_ the .org mailing list if you like.
>>
>> Feel free to suggest links, post news articles, downloads, or any 
>> other information people can use.
>>
>> - Tony Evans
>>
>>
>>
>> Ryan Wachowiak wrote:
>>
>>> just a quick question,
>>>
>>> im new to this newsgroup, and noticed only one problem. the massive
>>> amounts of emails coming to my email. I dont really mind the whole
>>> thing, but wouldnt it be MUCH easier to set up phpbb, or some forum
>>> utility and just run the site off that?
>>>
>>> hit me up with what you think
>>> ryan
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Well, it looks pretty good. One thing that I've missed is a good archive 
> of all the advice from the trenches from the real live admins in this 
> group. This site would really be a help for newbies and new members 
> alike. The question is, despite all the best intentions, doesn't it 
> duplicate the effort? So, I have mixed feelings about it. I do think the 
> positive outweigh the negatives. I'm interested in hearing how the real 
> backbone of the group feels, though. ...
> -Greg Neumann
> 
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