A real forum for Squeak

Klaus D. Witzel klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Tue Oct 11 19:07:29 UTC 2005


Hi Christophe,

I hope that feeding external services like gmane.org (which I'm using for  
NNTPing this message) and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/squeak/ has some  
room on your list. Besides of that I very much appreciate your initiative.

/Klaus

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:10:19 +0200, Christophe Tricot  
<christophe.tricot at univ-savoie.fr> wrote:

> Other feature: With a forum Polls can be simply added to posts. By  
> example, a poll to submit a new idea to the community... :-)
>
> In my mind, the most interesting features are:
>      *  Unlimited forums can be organized into as many categories as you  
> like
>      * Powerful search facility
>      * Polls can be simply added to posts
>      * Email notification of replies to your topics
>      * Powerful topic subscription capability
>      * Personal profile creation
>      * Email-like private messaging system
>      * Topic editing
>      * Mass delete/move/lock/unlock of posts
>      * Topic splitting
>      * Option of auto-pruning of old or unanswered messages on a  
> per-forum basis
>      * Easy database backup and restore
>      * Complete member management
>
> I would like to have these features to support squeak and facilitate all  
> participations: from newbies to expert, from person with a mail reader  
> to person with webmail.
>
> If you are agree with me, I'm ready to manage a forum. But this  
> initiative are only possible with the support of the community...
>
> Christophe
>
>
>
> Hübner, Uwe wrote:
>> In my view:
>>  Mailing-Lists:
>>  - More hidden from public
>> - Members are more forced to notice discussions (whether they are  
>> interested or not) [unless they automatically 'filter' into an E-Mail  
>> folder] - A bit more complicated to review postings that are older than  
>> your subscription (archive)
>> - Unless the archive is publicly available on a website nothing may be  
>> 'googled'
>>  Forums:
>>  - Can easily be read by everyone who is interested
>> - You have to 'discipline' yourself to read the forum regularly
>> - Current postings may be 'googled'
>> - Have a tree structure concerning a specific subject
>>   Note: I don't say what are pros and cons!
>>  Uwe
>>    -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> *Von:* Christophe Tricot [mailto:christophe.tricot at univ-savoie.fr]
>> *Gesendet:* Montag, 10. Oktober 2005 11:43
>> *An:* The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>> *Betreff:* A real forum for Squeak
>> *Wichtigkeit:* Hoch
>>      Hi all,
>>       (I don't speak very well English so I'm sorry for mistakes... ;-)  
>> )
>>       I'm looking for a forum about Squeak like phpBB (or smallBB??). I
>>     think a forum is better than a mailing list because of users can
>>     organize discussions by themes and, users can subscribe to subjects
>>     or kind of subjects to follow discussions. Furthermore, everybody
>>     can easily consult old messages and users with rights can manage the
>>     organizations of subjects. If you want more details you can read
>>     features of phpBB here: http://www.phpbb.com/features.php
>>       What do think about this idea?
>>       Christophe
>>    
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>
>





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