> > I am currently creating a index page for rebol-help and will instal phpbb > > on reboltalk as soon as the domain resolves.
Does it have easy option to send email when posts are replied to? creativecow.net has a good system. Easy to see threads and when making a new post you just check "send me email notice about replies to this post" or "any new messages in this thread" http://www.creativecow.net/index.php?forumid=24 This is rally great - a sensible 'push' technology. One does not have to check-in constantly just to see if anyone has answered a question. In fact in terms of getting questions answered it beats email, AltMe or even newsgroups. The email which arrives contains the answer plus hyperlink tot the message thread, so no browsing time wasted. So simple and effective. I wish they all had this. Most of us probably participate in many topic forums, subscribe to mailing lists and have lives and work and $pam. A bonus of the "notify me" mechanism is that as the forum generates more traffic, becomes more successful, it makes no difference to getting answers. If you go away for some time there is a better chance of quickly returning to the point at hand. If someone has a complex problem and later revisits that thread with a new solution or a newcomer finds it via search then they too can add easily to and old thread. Et voila you may get a very pertinent email even if the thread is old. Forums, newgroups, mailing lists, AltMe are all time-biased. But many problems are not. So very important, especially for beginners or anyone not bale to keep up with the flow to have this notify option, supported by a good search tool. Another nice feature on Creative cow is that there are alliterative ways to display the forum message threads. This includes a smooth scrolling one for any given thread which avoids the very tedious need to keep clicking and sending http request back to the server just to read the next message. Just click on the little green "T" icon at the head of any thread to se what I am talking about. They also change text color to indicate message read, and there is an option to select that for all messages in a thread. - Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
