[PSUBS-MAILIST] Psub Facebook

Tue Jun 7 13:11:14 EDT 2016

What is the problem with email? Shouldn't the recipients be able to whitelist / filter incoming messages appropriately?  I like it. Email is low bandwidth, can be easily downloaded and viewed offline (important on expensive data connections), and doesn't require me to browse to and navigate a website to use.

Sean

On June 7, 2016 8:22:19 AM MDT, Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
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>I'm for anything that works.
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>The current email system is archived immediately, it's just in a 
>different format than it use to be years ago.  You can reach it by
>going 
>to WWW.PSUBS.ORG -> Discussion -> Browse Archive. Unfortunately it is 
>not searchable.  I have stated my displeasure with our email forum 
>numerous times primarily due to ever changing and stricter
>anti-spamming 
>techniques by large providers such as yahoo, hotmail, etc, that make it
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>difficult to configure.  As it is now you can see that numerous posts 
>have the name stripped off so if the person doesn't sign their name you
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>don't even know who authored the email.
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>The web based discussion is available but difficult to retain if I 
>change software vendors, as I've needed to do in the past due to 
>limitations or bugs in the software.  The current one (myBB) has upload
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>problems with large PDF files which I have never been able to resolve. 
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>I have installed a phpBB version which may work better but we'll lose 
>whatever is in the current database.
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>I am not opposed to facebook and in fact already have a PSUBS facebook 
>page at "PSUBS - Personal Submersibles Organization" and "Personal 
>Submersibles Organization".  Apparently I created two of them, but
>never 
>developed them because I didn't have time to learn how to build them 
>out.  If someone adept at facebook wants to get things moving with it, 
>contact me so we can move it along.
>
>I have not forced a move from email because people seem to like it. 
>But 
>it's time consuming and painful to maintain so just be aware that when 
>the next big problem comes around I'm likely going to shut it down and 
>force a move to some other option that we have more control over.
>
>Jon
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>On 6/4/2016 12:15 AM, Alan James via Personal_Submersibles wrote:
>> There have been some posts that I know I have missed of late.
>> The last post I saw was my post on pingers, not sure if anything
>> has come through since then.
>> Jon has mentioned the idea of going off the email based system
>> & using our psubs web based forum.
>>    What about a Psubs Facebook page. What are the pros & cons
>> of that? Can we some how archive the posts under topics?
>> Alternatively if we continue on this email based system, can the
>> emails be archived immediately so that there is a way of checking
>> whether we are missing posts or not?
>> Cheers Alan
>>
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