Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-27 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Wednesday 26 September 2012 16:02:31 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2012-09-26 14:33, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: Why not do the best of both worlds. In whose opinion? I thought it would have been obvious. I'm not ready yet to declare

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-09-27 08:22, Martin Schreiber wrote: I'm not ready yet to declare FPC/Lazarus as an oldtimers only fad. I'm afraid I don't understand your reply. People who prefer NNTP over a nice and modern WEB-forum are dumb oldtimers. Then that is me. :) Fine, but I did also mention a web forum

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Martin Schreiber wrote: I'm not ready yet to declare FPC/Lazarus as an oldtimers only fad. I'm afraid I don't understand your reply. People who prefer NNTP over a nice and modern WEB-forum are dumb oldtimers. So I am a dumb oldtimer too. I hate WEB-forums and think NNTP is the most

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-27 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Martin Schreiber said: I'm not ready yet to declare FPC/Lazarus as an oldtimers only fad. I'm afraid I don't understand your reply. People who prefer NNTP over a nice and modern WEB-forum are dumb oldtimers. No. People that try to push such preferences into a

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-27 Thread Andrew Brunner
On Sep 26, 2012, at 8:24 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys gra...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: Why not do the best of both worlds. Setup a NNTP server, then use fpWeb (or even plain CGI will do) to create a NNTP Web Client (aka Web Forum). Now all based are covered - users can use the communication medium

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-09-27 09:56, Marco van de Voort wrote: So having a preference is not the problem (and I prefer NNTP too), but pushing it when it is a lost cause is. So you give up that easy. Personally, I don't tend to be a lemming and always follow the flavour of the month. G.

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-27 Thread Cephas Atheos
Guys, I'm sorry if this has re-opened old memories of the NNTP wars and the Great Listserv Battle, and caused flashbacks and post-http-stress-disorder! :) That wasn't my intention, I swear! Of course, it would be naïve of me to think that any urge to fix and update (or change, as it's called :)

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-26 Thread Michael Schnell
On 09/25/2012 09:14 PM, Jeff Duntemann wrote: I don't know how it is elsewhere, but here in the US, more and more ISPs are eliminating Usenet access completely. Same in Germany. Deutsche Telekom silently did that about a year ago. AFAIK, there is a number of rather cheap payed services for

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-09-25 20:14, Jeff Duntemann wrote: I don't know how it is elsewhere, but here in the US, more and more ISPs are eliminating Usenet access completely. Do you mean an NNTP server for Yes, Usenet is not the only NNTP servers newsgroups on the internet. For example, I host a couple of

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-26 Thread Sven Barth
Am 26.09.2012 14:36, schrieb Kostas Michalopoulos: Then is community - FreePascal's current forums are awful and because of that, dead. I'd suggest to archive them and install a modern board that follows all the conventions that people have learned from the hundreds of thousands of other forums

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-26 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: If possible the FreePascal forums should be merged with the Lazarus forums (but **NOT** in the current dreadful Lazarus site!) since, honestly, a lot of people look for FreePascal via Lazarus. While they're technically different projects, from an

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-09-26 14:10, Marco van de Voort wrote: I asked Lazarus devels about that a fat year ago. (at the lazarus day), and IIRC Marc wanted to update the forum software (version) first. Why not do the best of both worlds. Setup a NNTP server, then use fpWeb (or even plain CGI will do) to

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-09-26 14:33, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: Why not do the best of both worlds. In whose opinion? I thought it would have been obvious. I'm not ready yet to declare FPC/Lazarus as an oldtimers only fad. I'm afraid I don't understand

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-26 Thread Cephas Atheos
On 26/09/12 10:58 PM, Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote: Regarding mailing lists: If I know that certain content was sent since I'm registered I'll use my mailing client's search otherwise I do a searchterm site:freepascal.org in Google. ;) Ah, yes, see that's exactly what I'm hoping

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Cephas Atheos wrote: A time-and-motion guy a few years ago (when I worked in HP) told us that for every extra click our customers had to do to get what they wanted on a website, we lost half of those customers. Four clicks is three clicks too many! Out of curiosity, was this before or after

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-26 Thread Sven Barth
Am 26.09.2012 16:42, schrieb Vincent Snijders: 2012/9/26 Cephas Atheos cephasath...@gmail.com: What would _you_ want to be able to do in one click (or less)? Go to http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/ This (although I'm mostly using URL completion for it...) and the following: *

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-26 Thread Cephas Atheos
G'day Mark! On 27/09/12 12:40 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.fpc-de...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Out of curiosity, was this before or after real HP got spun off as Agilent, and what part of the company were you in? (I'm just interested to know if your background is computers, chromatography, or

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-26 Thread Sven Barth
Am 26.09.2012 16:26, schrieb Cephas Atheos: Kostas and Doug, I agree that even a few little things (like the, er, distracting running pussycat thing) can make a huge difference. It's a Cheetah and the official FPC mascot. So don't say anything wrong about it ;P Regards, Sven

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-26 Thread Kostas Michalopoulos
It should run only as an easter egg when you move the mouse over it, not all the time :-P On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 26.09.2012 16:26, schrieb Cephas Atheos: Kostas and Doug, I agree that even a few little things (like the, er,

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-09-26 16:18, Kostas Michalopoulos wrote: It should run only as an easter egg when you move the mouse over it, not all the time :-P I feel like I went back in time to the early 90's every time I see that. Those animations were the in thing then. :) Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-26 Thread Cephas Atheos
On 27/09/12 12:42 AM, Vincent Snijders vincent.snijd...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/9/26 Cephas Atheos cephasath...@gmail.com: What would _you_ want to be able to do in one click (or less)? Go to http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/ ! That scared the HELL out of me! :D Oh my

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-26 Thread Cephas Atheos
On 27/09/12 1:11 AM, Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote: This (although I'm mostly using URL completion for it...) and the following: * http://wiki.freepascal.org/ * http://www.freepascal.org/docs.var * ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/trunk/ * http://bugs.freepascal.org Oh,

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-26 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/9/26 Cephas Atheos cephasath...@gmail.com: On 27/09/12 12:42 AM, Vincent Snijders vincent.snijd...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/9/26 Cephas Atheos cephasath...@gmail.com: What would _you_ want to be able to do in one click (or less)? Go to http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-26 Thread Tomas Hajny
On 27 Sep 12, at 1:56, Cephas Atheos wrote: . . I hope this makes sense. And I do hope everyone's taking my attitude in the spirit it's intended, I'm not trying to be a bastard, really. I know you guys can pull all this together, you really don't need me to tell you this. But I'm gonna keep

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-26 Thread Cephas Atheos
Thanks guys, I'll move the discussion to the other list. I was going to write more, but I'll leave it for the time being. Thanks for your valuable help and perspectives. Pete ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Sven Barth
Am 25.09.2012 00:15, schrieb Jonas Maebe: Again, that's one proper list address and two invalid ones. Additionally, fpc-announce is a list on which pretty much only announces about new FPC releases are distributed. Finally, you are not subscribed to any FPC list using the address

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Tue, 25 Sep 2012, schreef Cephas Atheos: [My apologies for the previous message attempt - obviously the list server doesn't handle html at all, and I could have checked for that first. Sorry for the block of base64!] G'day everyone, As you may be aware, there are a number of significant

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Cephas Atheos
On 25/09/12 8:15 AM, Jonas Maebe jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be wrote: The problem is that both in your previous and in your current message, you are sending the mail to one correct list address and to two invalid ones. Thanks for clarifying that, Jonas. That would explain why I got 2 administrative

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Cephas Atheos
I'm seeing some traffic on fpc-devel and the other legitimate lists, and I did get a success message when I reposted my original message, so some things are getting through. I think you're right though, I need to change my response address. I forgot the banal horrors of mailing lists and reply-to

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Sven Barth
Am 25.09.2012 02:39, schrieb Cephas Atheos: On a related noteŠ The website looks really quiet, with maybe 3 or 4 requests per month. Is there a link between the site and the formal mailing lists? Or does the website work off its own set of lists? I noticed while looking through these list

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Cephas Atheos
G'day Daniël, On 25/09/12 5:35 PM, Daniël Mantione daniel.manti...@freepascal.org wrote: Hi! I'm fully aware of limitations, and happy to take take help, but please understand I am skeptical to plans like let's install PhpBB and those are not fundamental plans. I agree, change for changes' sake

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2012-09-25 09:01, Cephas Atheos wrote: I mentioned PHPBB because it's incredibly robust, widely used, has good security, is minimally invasive to manage, can be scaled reasonably well, people are familiar with it, and it works. My personal opinion is that I hate web forums! They are hard to

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Michael Schnell
On 09/25/2012 10:29 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: NNTP is still the most used public discussion medium on the internet, and for good reason - it works very well. +1 -Michael ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Ivanko B
BTW, devoted people for maintaining the WWW-site is a great matter :) ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-25 Thread Jeff Duntemann
I don't know how it is elsewhere, but here in the US, more and more ISPs are eliminating Usenet access completely. Do you mean an NNTP server for FPC that people could access directly using a client like Agent or Pan? (In other words, without being part of the newsfeed.) I've used Usenet off

[fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-24 Thread Cephas Atheos
[My apologies for the previous message attempt - obviously the list server doesn't handle html at all, and I could have checked for that first. Sorry for the block of base64!] G'day everyone, As you may be aware, there are a number of significant problems with the FPC community site. For new

Re: [fpc-devel] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

2012-09-24 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 24 Sep 2012, at 16:16, Cephas Atheos wrote: [My apologies for the previous message attempt - obviously the list server doesn't handle html at all, and I could have checked for that first. Sorry for the block of base64!] The problem is that both in your previous and in your current