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Dear all, I am not sure of Kevin's analysis. I think I would be quite capable of looking at such a board, it is just that I would never actually do it as there is always something else to do that is more pressing. The current system alerts us all to interesting issues, but many of us do not have the time to do much sitting and web browsing, so would only tend to look at it if we have a problem (or time on our hands). I think it would be a major loss (at least to me). Simon Phillips -------------------------------------------------------- | Simon E.V. Phillips | | Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology | | Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology | | University of LEEDS | | LEEDS LS2 9JT | | United Kingdom | -------------------------------------------------------- | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3027 (direct) | | +44 (0)113 343 1427 (sec) | | Fax: +44 (0)113 343 1407 | | WWW: http://www.astbury.leeds.ac.uk/People/SEVP.htm | -------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Cowtan Sent: 04 November 2005 14:09 To: Bulletin Board CCP4 Subject: Re: [ccp4bb]: Moving the bulletin board to a modern format (again) *** For details on how to be removed from this list visit the *** *** CCP4 home page http://www.ccp4.ac.uk *** Yes, I've used them, they're great. Here's an example... http://www.yabbforum.com/community/ Typically you'll have one or more subject groups, containing one or more topics, each of which can contain one of more threads. They can be left to run on their own, or admins can get involved, e.g. moving threads into more relevent topics. Often people can edit their own posts for some time after posting. All sorts of privilige settings are possible, e.g sometimes only admins can start threads, sometimes anyone can, sometimes it varies by topic. You can include polls in messages, as well as a certain amount of markup using UBBcode, a sort of simplified html. (Might be useful for equations). You get email and optionally personal messaging without revealing your email address. You get archiving and web access for free of course, linking and threading of posts, search by author, thread, etc. To sumarise: The upside: it is superior to an email list in every possible respect. The downside: you can't really expect scientists to use any technology which isn't at least 10 years out of date, so it ain't gonna happen till about 2010. (Actually we got some of the York lab hooked on wiki after only about 5 years, but a previous attempt to use wiki a year earlier failed).
