[amsat-bb] Emails from AMSAT Website

[Steve Saner]

On 05/30/2018 05:28 AM, John wrote:
> To further add to this point, many of us do not have time to constantly
> refresh and browse a web forum, whereas an e-mail list effectively pushes
> each update to you one at a time, allowing a much easier use format.
> 
> I stopped using forums years ago, but still read e-mail reflectors as they
> come in with all my other e-mail in one useful place.


Yes, I agree. I do not see the appeal of forums at all. That said, there 
are some forum packages, Discourse being one that I am familiar with, 
that you can choose to work with in "Email Mode" such that any message 
posted to the forum will come to you in email, and if the system is set 
up to do it, you can reply to a post via email, and even start a new 
thread via email.

In other words, it can be a forum for those that like forums, and it can 
pretty much be an email list for those that like that. I'm on a couple 
groups that use Discourse and the email interface seems to work pretty well.

I would much prefer just sticking with mailman, myself, but if it has to 
change, there are ways of implementing a forum that don't totally suck.

Steve

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Steven Saner <steve at saner.net> KD0IJP
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