Re: Addressees on Message boards

Posted by Myles on Thu Sep 10 5:08:46 1998

In Reply to: Re: Addressees on Message boards posted by TimP on September 03, 1998 at 11:56:45:

[snipped - reasons not to dump multiboard]

Agree with this.

>There are good reasons not to use personal email clients.

E-mail clients, to my mind, are the best way to receive and reply
to messages. We already receive multiboard messages by e-mail, but
having to go on-line and to the appropriate web page and (re-)setting
the distribution before even thinking of typing in words is inefficient.

I agree, though, that just using e-mail (not getting it onto the web
somehow) can lead to problems. But that doesn't mean the only other
way to do it is via a web browser. In short, I think we need CoCoBoard
or HyperNews feature to automatically post an incoming e-mail to a
forum of some sort will be a huge boon to me.

>Two slogans spring to mind: the network is the computer and
>Openness, Openness, Openness.
>We have all had disk crashes, with subsequent loss of history.
>Your Email clients history is not accessible to other members of paneris and so
>should not contain unique, Paneris related, messages.

Agree, although I would like to see some justification, FROM ANYONE, of why
openness is good. I fully agree that we need to open amongst ourselves (so
that we know what is going on and can jump into projects) and I understand
that we can use openness as a box to tick to impress some (open?) organisations,
but is all openness good? (Some of our customer's pages already have password
protection).

>If we really are wedded to our email clients then we can always rip the
>email handling routines out of CoCo Board or HyperNews and install it in
>multiboard.

I think that this would be a large effort. Why not just use HyperNews as
our preferred messaging system anyway?

>yours
>timP

Regards,

Myles

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