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

[mayqel qunenoS]

Qov:
> making it impossible for idiots to fill messages with dancing smilies.

HaHaHaHaHa

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 5:01 PM, qurgh lungqIj <qurgh at wizage.net> wrote:
> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Robyn Stewart <robyn at flyingstart.ca> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> If anyone has suggestions for mailing list software with a decent webUI do
> let me know.
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