SCN: SCN message board added

[Michael Hanson]

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, patrick wrote:

> Michael,
> 
> What message boards are there at SCN already has? I'm not aware of
> any.

Here is a partial list (gleened grom my .newsrc)

scn.whatsnew: 1-127
scn.questions: 1-1668
scn.bugs: 1-1860
scn.ideas: 1-543
scn.news.offline: 1-300
scn.newbieland: 1-1906
scn.admin.newsgroups: 1-394
scn.events.forum: 1-448
scn.cpsr.general: 1-107
scn.sustainable.general: 1-200
scn.earthsave.general: 1-200
scn.sastro.news: 1-192
scn.sastro.sky: 1-548
scn.sastro.talk: 1-252
scn.test: 1-238
scn.volunteers.general: 1-100
scn.admin.policy.changes: 1-44
scn.admin.committees.hardw-software: 1-187
scn.admin.committees.webmasters: 1-1970
scn.admin.committees.services: 1-34 

> 
> The purpose of the message boards is to allow people to see what
> other people are voicing likes and dislikes about. I was not clear
> about the meaning of the forums because I want to keep it as flexible
> and broad as possible.
> 
> The news server is one other thing in a list of things to get
> implemented, but very tentative. I'm doing what I can on the front
> end. There are a lot of things that take priority over the news
> server for now. Google has news right now, so there is an
> alternative.

Google does not carry the local SCN groups, which were the main ones I was
meaning.  (Sure, you can get outside news from lots of places - but the
"fora" described in SCN's Policy Statement were implemented as local
usenet groups.) 

Ezboard is plainly an inferior piece of rubbish - splattered with adds
(not compatible with SCN philosophy), throws up all sorts of pop-up
windows, and I would be very surprised if it is at all usable with Lynx. 

Why is the news server tentative?  We had one. Did something happen to the
machine?  Did software rot set in?  Is it more than a matter of just
fixing whatever is wrong with the machine or software?  (Outside news
feeds are, of course, harder to handle, but since there are other ways to
get them, all we realy need are the local newsgroups.  Much less of a
processing/disk/bandwidth problem.)  (Of course I realize things like
fixing the mail server so we can recieve all our mail comes first.) 

> 
> And I will add a forum for "things broken". Good suggestion and I
> appreciate it.
> 
Thanks.

> Patrick
> Seattle Community Network
> 
> --- Michael Hanson <michaelh at scn.org> wrote:
> > 
> > So why are we creating new message boards instead of getting our
> > news
> > server back on line and using the ones we already have? 
> > 
> > It would be helpful to add one for problem reports/etc.
> > Where people can see if a problem has already been reported,
> > and hopefully those fixing things can post progress reports.
> > (Also helpful when the problem you need to report is that
> > SCN e-mail isn't working.)
> >   ("What do you dislike about SCN" sounds like more of a
> > design discussion forum, than a place to bring up things
> > like our news server being down and the current mailer
> > problems.  If those are appropriate topics, then perhaps a 
> > cover page explaining scope of group would be in order.)
> > 
> >   Thanks,
> >   Michael
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, patrick wrote:
> > 
> > > There is now a message board for SCN. Please see Featured Sites
> > for
> > > December for a link to the board. The direct link is here:
> > > http://pub50.ezboard.com/bseattlecommunitynetwork .
> > > 
> > > This board is currently external (www.ezboard.com), however there
> > are
> > > discussions being held to add an SCN-hosted message board/bbs,
> > using
> > > either phpbb (www.phpbb.com) or the Discus software
> > > (www.discusware.com).
> > > 
> > > If you want to provide input on a permanent message board for
> > SCN,
> > > please do so on the message board. There are currently two areas
> > to
> > > the board: "What do you like about SCN" and "What do you dislike
> > > about SCN." You can view the feedback of others on the board.
> > > 
> > > Patrick
> > > Seattle Community Network
> > > 
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