Re: [AGA-mcm] AGA Discussion Forum

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

Since you asked, I'm kind of partial to vbulletin. But I
don't think I hate *any* of the newer editions of any of
them vBadvanced CMPS , phpBB 2.0, etc.

sh

--- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:

> PS: Another reason for hosting it onsite is that I'd also
> like to 
> double-gateway it with the mailing lists -- hopefully
> this will be doable. 
> I also would like to be able to control our own archives
> rather than have 
> it up to the whim of some arbitrary 3rd party (how many
> times have you 
> seen a forum's entire archive get lost because the
> hosting company didn't 
> do backups, or the group moved from one hosting company
> to another). 
> Archives are very important.
> 
> Oh, and I think having Ray Cone onboard is a great idea. 
> He might be able 
> to do some of the technical maintanence bits that don't
> require physical 
> access to the machine.
> 
> One question for Larry and Phil (and anyone else who can
> answer this): 
> Given a choice of all the open-source implementations
> (e.g. phpBB) What 
> software would be preferred?
> 
>    - Erik
> 
> On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Erik Olson wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Phil Edwards wrote:
> >
> >> I'm in the process of finding out what it will take
> for us to get a forum 
> >> up and running.  Once I've done that I will find
> people to staff it. I 
> >> lack the knowledge to actually get it set up, but I
> will make the 
> >> committment to the daily management/administration of
> a forum.  Aside 
> >> from begging for things, this is something I can do. 
> Besides, it's time 
> >> to put my money where my mouth is.
> >
> > Find the staff first.  We have the technical knowledge
> to set it up.  I 
> > will be happy to set it up and maintain it on the AGA
> site.  We will be 
> > able to tie in to the membership database that way. 
> And we also won't have 
> > to pay $100-whatever per year for the hosting.
> >
> >  - Erik
> >
> >
> 
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