[plug] Forum Software

[Bret Busby]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Patrick Coleman wrote:

> 
> On 7/24/07, Adrian Woodley <Adrian at diskworld.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Cameron Patrick wrote:
>> >
>> > The suggestion from Pia last night went something like this: "newbies do
>> > web pages and not e-mail, we need to be friendly to newbies, therefore
>> > we should set up forums".  This was, er, not universally well-received...
>> >
>> In the interest of fairness, it was not universally poorly-received
>> either...
>
> The impression that I got was that the forum was definitely going to
> exist in addition to the mailing list. I personally think a mail-forum
> gateway would be the best way of catering to both audiences, if it
> works well.
>
> -Patrick
>
>

I thought, from memory, that a forum had previously operated for a 
while, within PLUG, in parallel with the mailing list, and that the 
forum had petered out.

Maybe I am wrong...

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
   written by Douglas Adams,
   published by Pan Books, 1992

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