[Asterisk-Users] asterisk newsgrup proposal or phpBB forum

[Steven Critchfield]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 14:58 -0800, Chris Albertson wrote:
> 
> Hey guys, Look at this example www.scubaboard.com It has nothing
> to do with Asterisk but is an example of a _very_ high volume
> meaasge board that _works_.  It runs on free software, has low
> admin overhead.  It allows moderators on a per subject level and
> optional authentication.  I have used this system both as a user and I
> have installed and tested the software on my system.  It is easy
> from both points of view.  Built in search, and even
> e-mail subscriptions to threads.  Not much more to ask for.
> 
> This list is actually becomming usless do to it's success.  I
> doubt I would notice a reply to this posting unless you CC me
> off line and remove the  [Asterisk-Users] lable so it doe not
> get piled in with 400 other messages.  
> 
> I suggest that people here actually try out "scubaboard" even if
> you have no interrest in diving.  Check out the photos, for sale
> ads, technical topics, regional/geographic forums and how it all
> is kept straight and the search feature actually works to find
> old threads.  And did I mentione-mail subscriptions to threads

When threads are sometimes only 3 messages, email subscription doesn't
help a bit. 

The mailing list is searchable via google with keyword
site:lists.digium.com. 

Web based forums are not useful when disconnected from the network, my
person mailing list archive is always accessible as long as my machine
is usable. 

Web based forums require you to go visit it and be there regularly,
email is there and at a glance over my mail client I can see if anything
is newly available without any navigation at all.

It is a single point of failure that can take all the knowlege away when
it fails or the maintainer decides they have had enough. I recently had
to deal with the maintainer of the only documentation for a project I
was working on lose his provider and therefore the only online copy of
the documentation.

BTW, if you filter based on subject lines, either you filtering app
sucks or you need to work on your filter writing skills. This mailing
list should be filtered based on a header line placed in the message by
the mailing list software such as X-BeenThere. My sieve rule for the
-users list is this...
IF 'X-BeenThere' contains 'asterisk-users at lists.digium.com' THEN File Into 'INBOX.asterisks'

That rule allows someone to take a thread off list without needing to
bother with the subject line. It also deals with any number of funky
strange ways of putting Re: or Aw: or FWD: into the subject line that
the list software doesn't always modify.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>