8 Oct
2021
8 Oct
'21
5:16 p.m.
said William Morder via tde-users:
| On Friday 08 October 2021 10:04:11 Marvin Jones via tde-users wrote:
| > On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, Michael wrote:
| > >Well, if the thought of changing to a forum from the mailing list
| > >appeals to the group that is...
| >
| > Anyone consider groups.io ? --- which each member can use as either
| > a mailing list and/or a forum for the group(s).
| >
| > Jonesy
|
| I never really got into IRC, etc., but can't xmpp/jabber be used for
| this kind of thing? If so, why should we try to reinvent the wheel?
|
| And obviously I never did Zoom and that stuff, but I do think that a
| forum would be a good idea, so that we can keep the mailing list more
| strictly on-topic.
A forum comes with its own wad of problems. Trying to remember the problem
that we're hoping to solve. Is it some messages being bounced because of
faulty spam filters, or something else?
IRC can be useful, though not as a mailing list replacement, and, again,
only if the problems attendant to *that* method are handled.
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