Re: Aw: Re: [stella] Time for a change?

[Albert Yarusso <albert@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

On Feb 16, 2005, at 4:19 PM, xucaen wrote:
> HI all, I hope I'm not speaking out of turn, but I was just wondering
> if AtariAge would be willing to create a forum specifically for this
> list. Or maybe the stella list could get it's own domain and set up
> it's own forum board. I would be willing to donate a few bucks towards
> that.

I have discussed the possibility of creating a stella-specific forum 
with some other individuals, but there are probably members who prefer 
a mailing-list type setup and don't want to visit a website to keep up 
with the list.  I also didn't want to create a Stella forum until we 
migrate to new forum software that has considerably increased 
flexibility over what we are using now.  Forum software does have the 
advantages of being much easier to browse through posting history 
(archives), better attachment and image management, profiles for users 
so you can more easily see "who's who", and containing spam is easier  
(not that spam has been much of an issue here).  You can also 
"subscribe" to individual topics that interest you, important and 
informative topics could be moved into a separate FAQ-style Stella 
forum for quick answers to common questions, and so forth.  It could 
also be made invisible unless you are a member of the "Stella" forum 
(or forums).

It's not something I've suggested, though, since I figured many people 
prefer a mailing-list.  And I didn't want to fragment the list by 
suddenly opening up a Stella forum on AtariAge.  A Stella forum on its 
own domain ("stellaprogramming.org", "atari2600.org", or whatever) is 
also a possibility and is something I could easily setup on one of our 
servers, preferably with IBP 2.0 or vBulletin.  I just don't know if 
the traffic the Stella list gets really warrants an entire, dedicated 
forum, but it does open some interesting possibilities.  For instance, 
development logs for different projects could go into a "Projects in 
Development" category, where the programmer could periodically post 
updates, screenshots, binaries, and so forth, making a nice snapshot of 
a title's development history once complete (where they could then be 
moved into a "Completed Projects" forum for archiving).

Okay, I'll shut up now.  :)

 ..Al

> Jim
>
>
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:06:04 -0500, Albert Yarusso 
> <albert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Feb 16, 2005, at 10:56 AM, cybergoth@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > I am willing to setup Mailman or another mailing list manager on one
> > > > of
> > > > our servers, where storage space, server performance and bandwidth
> > > > will
> > > > not be issues.
> > >
> > > Will this generate a browsable archive?
> >
> > Yes, Mailman supports web-based browsing of archives.  You can view a
> > complete list of features here:
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/features.html
> >
> > They also have a list of some sites using Mailman, which includes
> > SourceForge.  ;)
> >
> >   ..Al
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