Sorry folks - been away for a while. Fusetalk - I have it all ready and waiting dependent on fusebox.org's hosting. I have just been playing with Fusetalk with the list sync addon on CF MX and found a few issues though, but have it running perfectly on CF5. I don't really want to open up the server for Joe Public since it won't be using the fusebox.org logins etc - it really needs to sit on the same server as the fusebox.org stuff and talk to the fusebox.org SQL db
Once we get the hosting sorted then we will rock and roll in a very short time, Jb. > -----Original Message----- > From: hal helms [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 04 April 2002 08:04 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Forum Suggestion & Topica Comments > > > I know John Beynon is responsible for talking with the kind > Fusetalk folks and I think he's spearheading the effort. > John, jump in here and give us an update. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 1:14 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Forum Suggestion & Topica Comments > > > Hal, > Thanks for the honest response and witty sarcasm. I think I may have > missed something within all 40+ of the "Re: Forum Suggestion" > posts, but > > my topica account had somehow become disabled. Fortunately, > as of a few > > hours ago, my Topica priveleges have been reinstated. > > FuseTalk will definetely work out well. Anandtech has been using it > with great success for quite some time. I will be anxiously awaiting > its debut. Will there be an effort to convert the thousands > of posts on > > Topica into a publicly accessible and, most importantly, easily > searchable system? Of the couple thousand posts I've had > time to read > over, the information contained in fusebox@topica is an invaluable > resource that would be a crime to lose. > > In any case, I would like to thank all those devoting what > little free > time they have to getting us all onto a better system. > > -Frank > > > > > > hal helms wrote: > > You're not at all out of line, Frank. Sometimes decisions > get made as > > the path of least resistance and it takes a crisis to jolt > us all out > > of our ingrained habits. I think the Fusetalk solution will be an > > exceptionally good one, as it allows people to use forums, > emails, or > > news groups to access the same info. It will probably take us 4-6 > > weeks to implement it as we're using volunteers who, though > generously > > > donating their time, do have full time jobs. Some, I'm > told, even have > > > lives, although this is unsubstantiated. > > > > In short, you're absolutely right. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Frank H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 6:14 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Forum Suggestion & Topica Comments > > > > > > I was wondering why I wasn't getting any emails from the > Fusebox list, > > so I logged on to the topica site to try to post. I hit the "Post" > > button and an error "You have been disabled by the owner of > this list" > > > came up. I can obviously just change email addresses, but I would > like > > to know whats going on. Given this latest issue, in a long > string of > > problems with Topica, I have decided to post my thoughts. > > > > I really hope some of the Fusebox leaders are reading the "Forum > > Suggestion" thread. Out of the dozens of forum systems > that I've used > > > as both a user and admin, I think Topica's system is one of > the least > > useful. Its nearly impossible to search past threads for > information > > and current threads are even hard to keep track of given that each > > response is listed separately. I'm sure there are plenty > of superior > > alternatives, but I particular like > > > > vBulletin: http://www.vbulletin.com/ > > InfoPop's Ultimate Bulletin Board: > > Board.http://www.infopop.com/products/ubb/index.html > > > > The fusebox Topica lists are some of the best sources of > information > > about Fusebox, and I'm sure many a developer have been > turned off from > > > Fusebox by the poor design of the system. Its just too difficult to > > extract information and answers from questions without > having hours to > > > read through every post. I know you can create an app to index the > > posts, but thats like attaching a jet engine to your yugo > because it > > keeps breaking down. Sure it'll fix the problem, but it'd be a lot > > easier to just get rid of the source of the problem in the first > place. > > > > I may be out of line with these comments, but I've personally had > > enough > > > > of reading through 300 posts each time I'm trying to find an answer. > > As > > > > someone who is new to Fusebox, I can say that it really > makes learning > > the methodology a pain in the neck. > > > > As I see it, we are using Topica because thats the way the FB > > community > > has communicated in the past. Why can't we change this? I > just don't > > > see any benefits to continuing to use such a system when so many > people > > are obviously dissatisfied with it. With all the smart people > collected > > > > here and all the resources they bring with them, it just > blows my mind > > that we are using Topica at all. I don't have the clout to suggest > > switching to a particular system, but maybe some of the prime movers > in > > this community will step up to the plate. > > > > Again, I apologize if I am out of line, but its something that needs > > to > > be said. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > This message has been checked for all known viruses by UUNET > delivered > through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. 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