[SI-LIST] Re: Potential si-list upgrades
- From: "Mike Monett" <0c47ef643c2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "" <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:33:39 -0500
> Thanks to all who have chosen to respond to my little survey of
> last week regarding possible changes to si-list.
> Out of the 39 people who responded to the questions 10 were in
> favor of a solely web based interface while 19 felt that an e-mail
> interface was mandatory and the lack thereof would probably cause
> them to stop using si-list on a regular basis. See that the
> sentiment is running about 2 to 1 in favor of retaining the e-mail
> interface I think that any solution will need to include that
> capability. (for what it is worth, if I were responding to my
> survey then it would have been 20 in favor of retaining the e-mail
> capability).
[...]
Ray, I was down with the flu so I didn't see your survey. Please forgive
the late response, but why don't you just enable posting to the Yahoo
SI-List?
Then people could receive the digest via email, and go to the web page to
reply to an individual post. This would solve the problem for the people
who like email and the ones who prefer a web interface.
I subscribed to the Yahoo forum as I often get garbled digests from the
list server and I can recover the missing section from the Yahoo digest.
But I can see why you don't want to enable posting in the present setup -
you would get multiple posts by having both the Yahoo forum and the SI-LIST
enabled at the same time. So there would have to be a switchover point to
prevent this.
For additional backup, you could add the mail-archive to the Yahoo forum.
They show threads and dates and all the posts are searchable in google. You
can also have them index your entire archive so you have another backup in
case something goes down. The url is
http://www.mail-archive.com/
You can also ask them to disable showing the email address of poster in the
reply button for each post.
For me, I'm fairly happy with things the way they are, except for the
occasional garbled digest. But happily you set up the Yahoo forum so that
problem is easily solvable.
Thanks,
Mike Monett
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