[Tlhingan-hol] Mailing List vs Forum vs. Social Media (was Re: How would you feel about new Klingon)

[qurgh lungqIj]

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Robyn Stewart <robyn at flyingstart.ca> wrote:

> You have to go to a forum and navigate it to remain current with what’s
> going on.  As the days lengthen and the snow melts, I have only time to
> scan tlhIngan-Hol messages, and read a few, but at least I get them and can
> see what’s going on in the same medium that I am checking anyway.
> Depending on the  forum software, it would also probably be harder to
> filter messages on content and sender.
>
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> Another thing I prefer about e-mail is that mine is pure text, making it
> impossible for idiots to fill messages with dancing smilies. You could
> probably compromise with a system that automatically posted e-mails to a
> forum or turned forum posts into e-mails, except for the e-mails of anyone
> who used animated emojies: their accounts should simply be deleted.
>

Such systems never work well in my experience. They tend to either focus on
one side over the other. The KAG website has the ability for people to
reply to forum posts via email but, depending on how they edit the email
before replying, the system can get confused and will often fail to include
bits or will include things it's not supposed to.

If anyone has suggestions for mailing list software with a decent webUI do
let me know.

qurgh
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