In article <22822d75-3c45-4482-9cdc-da91b2f12...@cantab.net>, Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> wrote: > I tried the forums some years back. I found dinky's rules and > application of them so strict that I felt it wasn't a place anyone could > contribute anything. It was just a place for reporting get_iplayer bugs > or BBC changes, and anything else got deleted.
FWIW The two fora (?) I use provide more than one actual 'forum' list. One can then be 'off topic'. (One list calles this the 'Aldershot' forum for some arcane reason. :-) ) So on-topic disussions can proceed without being bothered by off-topic material. The moderators deal with spamming and bad behaviour. Which isn't, so far as I know, much different to what happens with well run email lists. Both use a very plain approach to make the pages easy to access with 'light' browsers, js off, etc. Avoids a common problem of eye-glaring layout with the text scattered thinly amongst a lot of irritating needless eye-candy. Still not as good as an email list IMHO, but it works for those who want a web forum. Jim -- Electronics https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html biog http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/history/ups_and_downs.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
