[PSUBS-MAILIST] Psub Facebook

[Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles]

I'm for anything that works.

The current email system is archived immediately, it's just in a 
different format than it use to be years ago.  You can reach it by going 
to WWW.PSUBS.ORG -> Discussion -> Browse Archive. Unfortunately it is 
not searchable.  I have stated my displeasure with our email forum 
numerous times primarily due to ever changing and stricter anti-spamming 
techniques by large providers such as yahoo, hotmail, etc, that make it 
difficult to configure.  As it is now you can see that numerous posts 
have the name stripped off so if the person doesn't sign their name you 
don't even know who authored the email.

The web based discussion is available but difficult to retain if I 
change software vendors, as I've needed to do in the past due to 
limitations or bugs in the software.  The current one (myBB) has upload 
problems with large PDF files which I have never been able to resolve.  
I have installed a phpBB version which may work better but we'll lose 
whatever is in the current database.

I am not opposed to facebook and in fact already have a PSUBS facebook 
page at "PSUBS - Personal Submersibles Organization" and "Personal 
Submersibles Organization".  Apparently I created two of them, but never 
developed them because I didn't have time to learn how to build them 
out.  If someone adept at facebook wants to get things moving with it, 
contact me so we can move it along.

I have not forced a move from email because people seem to like it.  But 
it's time consuming and painful to maintain so just be aware that when 
the next big problem comes around I'm likely going to shut it down and 
force a move to some other option that we have more control over.

Jon



On 6/4/2016 12:15 AM, Alan James via Personal_Submersibles wrote:
> There have been some posts that I know I have missed of late.
> The last post I saw was my post on pingers, not sure if anything
> has come through since then.
> Jon has mentioned the idea of going off the email based system
> & using our psubs web based forum.
>    What about a Psubs Facebook page. What are the pros & cons
> of that? Can we some how archive the posts under topics?
> Alternatively if we continue on this email based system, can the
> emails be archived immediately so that there is a way of checking
> whether we are missing posts or not?
> Cheers Alan
>
>
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