Re: [AGA-mcm] Forum future

[Larry Lampert <l_lampert@yahoo.com>]

Hi Erik,

I am on board with whichever way you think it should go. Just curious are there 
any other cool features that you see with the upgrade?

Larry

--- On Tue, 12/8/09, Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@dustyuniverse.com> wrote:

> From: Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@dustyuniverse.com>
> Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] Forum future
> To: "AGA Advisory Committee" <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
> Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 7:33 PM
> Hi Erik,
> 
> I think the geezer gateway was a great transitional thing
> but maybe it 
> has served its purpose and needs to quietly go away. You're
> the Tech 
> Decider. But if you want, shoot me the list of 50 folks and
> I'll see if 
> anyone rings a bell, membership-wise.
> 
> Cheryl
> 
> 
> 
> Erik Olson wrote:
> > I posted this on the AGA Forum a couple days back
> > 
> > "We've had on the AGA forum, something I dubbed the
> "geezer gateway", 
> > which allows a certain amount of bidirectional posting
> between the old AGA 
> > Email list, and the forum.
> > 
> > It doesn't work super great. In fact, the
> bidirectionality of it is pretty 
> > weak. Nobody uses the e-mail for posting anymore
> anyway. Worse, the author 
> > of the gateway program hasn't updated it for the
> current version of phpBB.
> > 
> > I personally like the e-mail gateway as a notification
> tool -- it tells us 
> > moderators when someone's posted a spam right away.
> But I'm curious if 
> > others use the service.
> > 
> > What I'm thinking of doing as we head into the new
> year and I'm getting 
> > started on a long-overdue software and hardware
> upgrade, is to take out 
> > the geezer gateway (and corresponding aga-member +
> aga-forums e-mail 
> > lists), and instead install two features (MODs) on the
> board: 1) the 
> > so-called "e-mail digest" mod, which can be used to
> send custom e-mails 
> > once a day or week, including the text of the
> messages. 2) the so-called 
> > "smartfeed" mod, which will allow you to subscribe to
> posts via RSS feeds.
> > 
> > I'm doing a survey to gauge the interest and see if
> this is sufficient for 
> > those using the gateway currently. You'll have to log
> into the forum to 
> > take part in the poll. Smile Or you can e-mail me
> directly 
> > (erik@thekrib.com)
> with any feedback."
> > 
> >     ----
> > 
> > I checked the membership info on aga-forums@thekrib.com,
> and there are 51 
> > people subscribed to the digests or immediate
> e-mail.  Interestingly, on 
> > first glance, the only person from here I found using
> this feature other 
> > than myself is Scott (which is probably how he manages
> to reply to posts 
> > so quickly).  Hmm..
> > 
> >    - Erik
> > 
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