[Tigers] A better way to communicate ?

[Smit, Theo]

My reply may have unintentionally come off a little negative on the BB
type forums. I participate in at least three of them, including TEAE's,
and I recognize the value they bring, and also that it's a lot of work
for the admins. It's just unfortunate that you can't easily take either
system (bulletin board and mailing list) and allow it to be presented in
either format. You can set the bulletin board systems to notify you by
email whenever a new message comes in, but the current implementations
don't let you fire off a reply within the email application's context
and have it posted appropriately. A 'new' thread couldn't be started
within the email context unless you could somehow instruct the server in
where that thread should be archived.

You can search the mailing list thread archive through the team.net
webserver, and it presents things in a threaded form:
http://www.team.net/mharc/archives/html/tigers/.  You can click through
the email address hyperlinks and it will fire up your email application,
but it doesn't include the subject line... That could be a cool addition
to the archive searching functionality but it's (again) extra work for
the admins and other volunteers to provide it.

Theo

-----Original Message-----
From: tigers-bounces+theo.smit=dynastream.com at autox.team.net
[mailto:tigers-bounces+theo.smit=dynastream.com at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Smit, Theo
Sent: June 17, 2008 10:02 AM
To: sralsten at ca.rr.com; tigers at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] A better way to communicate ?

Hi Steve,
There are other online Tiger communities, and quite a few people
participate in more than one. Go visit www.teae.org and check out their
online forum - it's basically what you're describing.