On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 21:17:11 +0100, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Do we have the list as an email one as some users do not have browsers?
If everyone could use browsers, then I could easily host a system like:
http://ludadood.co.uk
(Ben's site)
This uses phpnuke and can have file areas, news sections, picture gallery etc.
The forum section (phpbb) though is the only essential one, and can be all that is displayed.
Have a look at the forum section, and ignore Ben's esoteric colour choices! (It is all configurable).
phpbb and phpnuke are very good solutions.
However as many people cannot afford costly online services (esp. in Europe where your local or internet calls are time-charged) that wouldn't work. I think that was the problem with ql.spodmail too.
However a forum like that could work excellent as a backup method in case the list fails again (btw it seems to have sped up considerably after my last post!) Maybe it's the weather ? :-)
What I was thinking about is a regular mainstream newsgroup but moderated. (You don't want the mess that goes on css of course) That would give a lot of people access that is now unavailable and would expose the QL a little more. Maybe as a css subgroup? ie. comp.sys.sinclair.ql -or something-
We could post a proposal if enough people back it. I don't see why we couldn't have both
And we can always fall back to the mailing list if everything else fails (Not to mention that offline news readers are a lot better in your inbox than mailing lists)...
See for example the mail I sent by mistake to the list.. I am weeding my ql-users list and I have more than 5000 messages there. A newsgroup wouldn't do that to you as messages are temporary (and can be saved if you REALLY want them), not to mention that spam arrest email addresses are accepted (as opposed to the mailing list when you have to resort in [EMAIL PROTECTED] solutions (hehe Tony ;-)
Phoebus
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