I subscribe to Adobe forums mostly for InDesign & Scripting. You can
receive emails on all or on a chosen topic, but if you want to reply
you have to do it via the forum.
Why can't RB do this? Would that reduce the workload? Not sure if the
workload involved is setting up the forum + emails or whether it is a
lot of work ongoing..
At 09:37 -0700 5/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Feb 05, 2007, at 16:27 UTC, Daniel Stenning wrote:
I really think a better solution would have been for RS to rewrite
the forum AND NUG software so that they both operate from the same
data.
Surely it is hardly rocket science to devise some code to intercept
all emails to the list and enter them into the forum database as
regular posts.
It's not rocket science, but it IS a lot of work. The only site I know
of that's done this (well) is LUGNET (http://www.lugnet.com), where you
can sign up for any level of the topic hierarchy as a mailing list, or
access it as a newsgroup (via NNTP), or just use it as a forum via the
web. This works very well for them (and they get a lot more traffic in
total than we do).
But it's a huge pile of custom-written software written by a guy who
has since disappeared. I wouldn't expect RS to have the resources to
redevelop something that fancy.
It is something that we as a community could probably do, but again,
it's a huge amount of work -- who's going to bell the cat? And what's
the point, when folks who like forums are just going to hang out on the
official ones?
If anything, we just need a mailing list (or several such, as we had
before) on some nice dedicated RB site. But again, questions of who
and where would likely be annoyingly difficult to pin down.
Best,
- Joe
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