[Elecraft] what can you do with a pair of K3s? Now Forums???

[Bob Nielsen]

On Apr 29, 2007, at 5:44 AM, Thom LaCosta wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Simon Brown (HB9DRV) wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thom LaCosta" <lacosta at bcpl.net>
>>> There are some folks who simply prefer email lists over web-based  
>>> forums.
>>> I ended up having both a web based forum and a mailing list for  
>>> the Drakelist....and while both are active communties, there are  
>>> many on the email list who don't do the forum thing and vice versa.
>>
>>
>> FWIW I was losing the plot with only the mailing list. I still  
>> have the Yahoo! mailing list but the forums are where I provide  
>> support for my users, also there is a small key group of  
>> supporters which regularly help the bewildered.
>
> I think the best solution is one where both forum users and email  
> users receive the same information...that's what the Yahoo Groups  
> model does...and there are
> the benefits of being able to post files for download, etc.
>
> I'm not sure if Google Groups has similar structure.
>
> I am still searching for something that will let me port the  
> majordomo messages to the forum and vice versa....so I don't have  
> the luxuary that the combo model afford.
>

I have seen an example of doing that without having to deal with  
Yahoo or Google.  I think it was the Ubuntu Linux forum <http:// 
www.ubuntuforums.org>, but don't know how they routed between the two  
venues.

73, Bob N7XY