Have you used www.proboards.com before? I'm not familiar with that one, though the forums I am involved with are most likely professional paid setups which we don't need nor want. I'd be a willing guinea pig.
A forum allows many things this list does not. You can create thread categories - categories based on time periods would be a prime option, so that if you have zero interest in one period, you don't need to continually be getting emails while others in this group discuss things in that period. (One thing that has always irked me about email listserves. Yes, I can just delete it based on the subject, but how often does the subject of the thread stay relevant?) It creates a place to go to. Right now, most of us get new posts as emails - right alongside our work email, family emails, and all others. Unless you have signed up using an email account purely for this list, things get buried or overlooked. Many people like Facebook, Pinterest, etc because there is something more there (though it also succumbs to the issue of being too much to sort through as well). An actual forum gives us our place. Michael On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 1:55 PM Wanda Pease <[email protected]> wrote: > Historic Costume, please. It wasn’t broke, don’t fix it 😄 > > Regina > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Apr 27, 2019, at 5:55 PM, Catherine Olanich Raymond < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > So long as the name makes it clear that it's a forum for discussing > historic costume, any name is fine with me. Both of your suggestions suit > me fine. > > > > I'm willing to be a guinea pig, though I'll be away from May 1-6. > > > > On 4/27/19 6:56 PM, Wicked Frau wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> So I am going to create a forum at https://www.proboards.com . I will > >>> need a few guinea pigs to test it out and see if it even begins to be > what > >>> we want. I need at least one or two each of tech savvy and Luddite > type > >>> folks. > >> The first order of business is what to call it. Should we just call it > >> Historic Costume? Or something that makes reference to its origins: > Like > >> HCostIndra. > >> Tell me what you all want! > >> Sg > >> _______________________________________________ > >> h-costume mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://indra.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > > > > > -- > > Catherine Olanich Raymond > > [email protected] > > (610) 805-9542 > > > > "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." > > Benjamin Franklin > > > > Confidentiality Notice > > > > This e-mail message and any documents accompanying this e-mail > > transmission contain confidential and/or legally privileged information > > The information contained herein is intended only for the use of the > > individual(s) named on the e-mail message. If you are not the intended > > recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying or > > distribution of this information or the taking of any action in reliance > > on the contents of this e-mail transmission is strictly prohibited. If > > you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender > > advising of the error and delete the message and any accompanying > > documents from your system immediately. Thank you. > > _______________________________________________ > > h-costume mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://indra.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > https://indra.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] https://indra.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
