[KLUG Members] have we ever considered running a forum?

[Bruce Smith]

> What's online suffers from lack of usability and functionality.
> 
> Links to the archives are buried so deep in the site as to be terra incognito to most people.

That's why most browsers support a feature called "bookmarks".  :-)
</smart-a$$>

Although I'm not against creating other links to the archives to 
make them easier to find.

> The forum itself is difficult to read (why is the forum
> title on every single email title?).  

I don't know.  It's stock/out-of-the box Mailman (list.org).
I have no time or desire to dig into the Mailman source code,
but feel free and send them your updates.

> If there's a search mechanism for it, it too is buried. 

I don't think so!  It's on the FRONT PAGE.   :-)

See the box& link on the bottom of the left hand column?
It says "Search", and searches the entire site, including
the mailing list archives.

We use google's free service as our search engine, so new
additions are not immediately available on the search results,
(until google re-indexes us) but it is fairly current.

> Until posts (and replies, to continue a thread) from the web
> are allowed (maybe that's available too, but unknown) 
> it isn't really a viable alternative.

It's not currently available, and could be a nice addition.

> Not trying to slam, just saying that the example shows a 
> truly functional dual-channel method of handling a newsgroup 
> while ours isn't.  A closer examination shows they got it from 
> here: http://florian-amrhein.de/newsportal/

Thanks, I'll take a look.
 
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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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