A week ago or so, there was another discussion on the board about
organizational issues of the ABRF mailing lists. I think that most if not
all of them might be resolved by moving the conference to a webboard. In
comparison with a mailing list, the webboard provides the following
advantages:
- flexible division of the discussion board by topics and subtopics
- flexible moderation (all, or selected, or none topics may be moderated;
any number of moderators may be assigned)
-flexible user registration (may be required or not required, by
self-registration or by request to the moderator, settable for each topic)
-less spam problems
-access to new messages and the archive at one place.
-immediate posting
-search feature
-and much more.
Also, many webboards have an option of e-mailing new posts (this is also
configurable by each registered user). Moreover, some system may accept
posts by E-mail what allows to make the webboard almost undifferent from a
mailing list.
Finally, I have a US-based web site (www.biotm.com) and experience in
installation, configuration and administration of a webboard system
(namely, Discus) and I am ready to administer such board for ABRF.
If you are interested, you may take a look at the test board (I have
installed it about 6 months ago for other purposes) at www.biotm.com/forum.
You are free to post and read any messages there or try self registration.
Current version of free Discus supports posts by e-mail; and its commercial
version has even more features.
Vladimir Titov,
Bokiron Ltd., Moscow, Russsia
vmtitov@aha.ru
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