[ale] ALE forum ?

[Richard Faulkner]

Will chime in late with a ¨ditto¨ to Greg on changing the ALE forum
infrastructure.  The system at hand works fine for me and offers more
fodder than I know what to do with.  More would just be more to me....

Rich in Lilburn


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] ALE forum ?
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:20:10 -0500


Google Groups have neither of those restrictions.

1) Any email address can subscribe, login, change profile, etc.

2) You can interact 100% via email (except subscribe / unsubscribe /
change subscription setup / etc)

I too run a google group.  My users are a static non-technical group
so I do all the subscribe / unsubscribe activities for everyone.  Very
few of my users have ever logged into the group. They just get emails.
 I only login to do admin stuff.

That said I personally have no opinion about ale changing its infrastructure.

Greg

On 2/24/11, Ron Frazier <atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com> wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> That would be a problem for me.
>
> I don't have a Google account. I don't want them tracking everything I
> do. Also, I do not allow Google sites to use scripting in my browser,
> since user generated content can create a risk of virus / trojan attack.
> I simply don't allow scripting on sites where I cannot trust all the
> content.
>
> Even if that weren't the case, if the forum sends you an email stating
> that there is a new message, instead of sending you the new message,
> which some do, that definitely wouldn't work.
>
> Ron
>
> On 02/24/2011 09:33 PM, Doug Hall wrote:
>> In my opinion, the Google group should be ALL that we use. For those
>> who don't want to log in to a website, simply use the email option
>> (which is the default membership type). Those of us who prefer not
>> getting all the email messages can use the no email option and log
>> into Google to see all the messages. All of this is in the "manage
>> memberships" link under your Google account - available from any
>> Google website when you're logged in. In either case, you can always
>> send a message to the group the same way we currently do on the email
>> list. In fact, you can associate multiple emails to your account and
>> email the group from any one of them. I manage several Google Groups,
>> and it just doesn't get any easier. Google handles the SPAM, lets you
>> monitor the first message (to help spot spammers), etc. Another
>> advantage? It's Google. You can search everything very easily.
>>
>> With BOTH an email list and a user group, one will suffer.
>>
>> Doug Hall
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>
> --
>
> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
> call on the phone.  I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy
> mailing lists and such.  I don't always see new messages very quickly.)
>
> Ron Frazier
>
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