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Re: [AGA-mcm] Forum future
I used to be on it (thought I still was) and caught a couple of spams,
but haven't had any in the last year or so since you put in some kind of
software that seems to catch it.
Sorry for the delay in post, I've been ill and it has affected my
thinking.
Paula
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 21:20 -0800, Erik Olson wrote:
> The confusion is that there are are three mailing lists.
> aga-member@thekrib.com was the pre-existing e-mail list used for AGA
> chatting before the forum. I double-gatewayed it into the subforum "AGA
> Member". That forum and list almost never gets used and needs to
> disappear. It has no purpose anymore.
>
> aga-announce@thekrib.com was for occasional announcements. It's not
> really gatewayed from anything now. It is almost never used, and needs to
> disappear too.
>
> The final list, the important one, notifies you when ANY post has been
> made on ANY of the forums: "aga-forums@thekrib.com". This is the
> so-called "geezer gateway". Nobody on the board/management/forum mods are
> subscribed to this list, except Scott (and me). This list has been
> essential for catching spam posts before anyone else reads them. I can't
> even fathom how Cheryl makes it there before us without being sub'd to the
> list.
>
> http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org/email.html
>
>
> Oh, also Ben, I looked at GWAPA's forum (without registering, though).
> Thanks for the heads-up on this! They appear to be using phpBB 2.0 (same
> as AGA's forum currently) -- which means they installed a plugin/mod to do
> that e-mail trick. I suspect I know which plug-in this is, and we should
> be able to get it for our upgraded phpbb 3 forum. Do you get the posts as
> a digest, or one e-mail per post?
>
> - Erik
>
>
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Ben B. wrote:
>
> > I'm on every mailing list I'm aware of. I get an occasional mail "from
> > someone one the forum"
> > but no other notifications.
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:
> > But my point is that we've had the e-mail-the-entire-post feature
> > since we started
> > the forum. I worked super extra to put in the feature, as it was not
> > part of stock
> > phpBB. But even with that, our moderators apparently never utilized
> > it & subscribed
> > to the mailing list. What will be different after we switch to a
> > different method
> > of delivery? There needs to be something else, don't you think?
> > Maybe a "moderator
> > training session" to get everyone on board?
> >
> >
> > - Erik
> >
> > On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Ben B. wrote:
> >
> > The forum GWAPA uses will mail you the text of the posts but not the
> > pictures. It includes a
> > link to the pictures.
> >
> > This "so called moderator' forgets to log in all the time for the
> > same reason
> > I think the
> > geezers like an email list. It comes to them. I would probably
> > never go to
> > GWAPA or APC either
> > if they didn't come to me.
> >
> > I think as long as people could subscribe and get notifications, it
> > wouldn't
> > matter so much if
> > they got the pictures and maybe not if they didn't get text. GWAPA
> > is the
> > only forum of 3-4 I
> > belong to that sends the text.... I think.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:
> > Hi Ben,
> >
> > I started building the OS image on a new machine today -- the
> > 2.0.22
> > forum
> > transferred over without a hitch (which pleasantly surprised
> > me), and I
> > was able to
> > mostly convert it to 3.0.6 on the new machine (as a test).
> >
> > This new version of phpbb seems to have a lot of good stuff
> > built-in:
> > attachments,
> > Atom Feeds, and better e-mail subscription. The thing that's
> > really
> > annoying,
> > though, is that it won't bloody e-mail the actual text of the
> > posts
> > (compared to a
> > feed reader, which will actually show you what's said)... which
> > is why I
> > did the
> > geezer gateway to begin with.
> >
> > If the Atom Feed thing works correctly, I won't be using the
> > e-mail
> > subscription at
> > all. I tend to have all my usual websites aggregated under a
> > feed reader
> > these
> > days, and that *does* show all the text of the posts.
> >
> >
> > Lots of stuff didn't transfer over automatically, including the
> > avatars &
> > color
> > scheme, so I will have some more work to do... but I think this
> > has given
> > me hope we
> > can do the switch-out within the next couple weeks. It is also
> > my hope
> > that we can
> > then get all the so-called moderators on the forum to subscribe
> > in one of
> > these two
> > ways, so that folks other than Scott and Cheryl answer questions
> > there.
> >
> > - Erik
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Ben B. wrote:
> >
> > The forums I'm on have newer versions than ours and you are able
> > to
> > subscribe
> > to the sections.
> > When you do, you get an email when there is a new post on those
> > sections
> > or
> > you can elect to get
> > a summary mailed to you daily of new and updated topics. I
> > rarely go
> > directly
> > and log into any
> > forum where I'm a member. I just check the emails I get and
> > follow the
> > link
> > back to the
> > conversation or look at the summaries and pick and choose what I
> > am
> > interested
> > in. Every night
> > I get 3 emails from Aquatic Plant Central if there is a new post
> > or an
> > update
> > in the Crypts,
> > DFWAPC, or NASH sections. Otherwise, I almost never go to APC.
> >
> > I was just looking at our forum. It will let you subscribe to a
> > single
> > post,
> > but not an entire
> > section of the forum. Can we upgrade our forum to a version
> > that does
> > this
> > and encourage
> > members to subscribe to the various topics?
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Erik Olson
> > Sent from my
> > crusty old
> > Linux box
> > erik at thekrib dot com
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> >
> >
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