[Lincs] Hello

[Ben Francis]

MD wrote:

>I beg to differ. I just managed to mess up the voting on the IRC
>channel thing by accidentally starting a new thread. Sorry for that.
>Also, I managed to use two names there on the mailing list. From now
>on, I'll be working under the name 'MD'. :)
>
>If we had a forum, stuff like that wouldn't happen.
>
Why not?

> :D You can make a
>forum send emails when a certain thread has been replied to, so anyone
>especially fond of mailing lists wouldn't be inconvenienced, although
>they would have to visit the forum to reply. I don't see much of a
>problem with that, tbh. It was also mean there were fewer problems
>with quoting and thread stucture.
>  
>
I would find having to log into a forum to reply a pain. I like to 
centralise all my daily reading to one email account and one web page of 
RSS feeds. Why log into seven different forums when I could just hit 
reply to an email?

But perhaps there is a solution. I am a member of a mailing list at 
magnatune.com where it operates as both a mailing list (you can email 
replies) and a forum. Does anyone know how to set this up? Perhaps we 
can keep everyone happy :) I find that learning to use lots of different 
forums is much more difficult than learning to use one email client, but 
for those who would rather use a forum, perhaps we can do that too.

>As for the IRC thing, whats the delay? It wouldn't take two minutes to
>set one up on a public server.
>  
>
There isn't really any setting up at all, you just type "/join #llug"! - 
I had been sitting in #llug on irc.oftc.net for days until my internet 
connection went down. The delay is more agreeing on a long term location 
for IRC meetings and a meeting time and day. How do we decide when all 
the votes are in?

tola ^/.

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Ben "tola" Francis            http://hippygeek.co.uk
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