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From: Martin Liddle on 26 Apr 2010 17:54 For several years I have moderated an online community for professional users of finite element analysis software which currently has about 4000 subscribers spread around the world and a typical traffic of 50 to 100 messages per day. It started off as an auto responder on someone's PC then moved to OneList and then Yahoo Groups and for the last seven years has used MailMan supplemented more recently with a phpBB Forum and a slightly flaky interface between the two using Mail2Forum. Currently the server is hosted free of charge by a company in the USA but the man time involved in maintaining things is becoming too much for them. Hence I am looking around for ideas as to what to do next. Other than MailMan and phpBB what software is there for hosting an online community? Ideally something that allows both email and forum style access but is better integrated than MailMan and phpBB. -- Martin Liddle, Tynemouth Computer Services, 3 Kentmere Way, Staveley, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S43 3TW. Web site: <http://www.tynecomp.co.uk>.
From: Tom Anderson on 26 Apr 2010 18:48 On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Martin Liddle wrote: > For several years I have moderated an online community for professional > users of finite element analysis software which currently has about 4000 > subscribers spread around the world and a typical traffic of 50 to 100 > messages per day. It started off as an auto responder on someone's PC > then moved to OneList and then Yahoo Groups and for the last seven years > has used MailMan supplemented more recently with a phpBB Forum and a > slightly flaky interface between the two using Mail2Forum. Currently > the server is hosted free of charge by a company in the USA but the man > time involved in maintaining things is becoming too much for them. Hence > I am looking around for ideas as to what to do next. Other than MailMan > and phpBB what software is there for hosting an online community? > Ideally something that allows both email and forum style access but is > better integrated than MailMan and phpBB. Google Groups. Or Yahoo Groups, i think. The former certainly allows access by both email (including to non-gmail addresses) and through the web; i only know the latter as an email group. But you already left Yahoo Groups. What was the problem there? tom -- Understanding the universe is the final purpose, as far as I'm concerned. -- Ian York
From: Martin Liddle on 26 Apr 2010 19:02 In message <alpine.DEB.1.10.1004262346370.14878(a)urchin.earth.li>, Tom Anderson <twic(a)urchin.earth.li> writes >On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Martin Liddle wrote: > > >But you already left Yahoo Groups. What was the problem there? > It wasn't very reliable and when it went down it was virtually impossible to contact a real person to find out what was wrong and when it might return. -- Martin Liddle, Tynemouth Computer Services, 3 Kentmere Way, Staveley, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S43 3TW. Web site: <http://www.tynecomp.co.uk>.
From: Owain on 26 Apr 2010 20:03 On 26 Apr, 22:54, Martin Liddle wrote: > I am looking around for ideas as to what to do next. Other than MailMan > and phpBB what software is there for hosting an online community? > Ideally something that allows both email and forum style access but is > better integrated than MailMan and phpBB. An in-house NNTP server ? Owain
From: Martin Liddle on 28 Apr 2010 11:35 In message <gxH5R1C+tg1LFwZO(a)tynecomp.invalid>, Martin Liddle <news09(a)tynecomp.co.uk> writes > Other than MailMan and phpBB what software is there for hosting an >online community? Ideally something that allows both email and forum >style access but is better integrated than MailMan and phpBB. > I have been doing a bit of digging on this and two possibilities are Zoho Discussions <http://discussions.zoho.com/> and GroupServer.org <http://groupserver.org>. Does anyone have experience with either of these? -- Martin Liddle, Tynemouth Computer Services, 3 Kentmere Way, Staveley, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S43 3TW. Web site: <http://www.tynecomp.co.uk>.
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