Paul,
Why can't one reply to a message on BA in Google groups? According to
Google groups http://groups.google.com.au/intl/en/googlegroups/tour3/page2.html
one can "From within a group, you can reply to a message that
someone else posted, or post a message or question of your own" and
"You can choose whether you want to read and post messages online, or
to just use your current email account to read and respond."
Has BA on Google groups been set up differently to the usual Google
groups?
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 27/01/2010, at 8:01 PM, Paul Dodd wrote:
Birding-aus works well as an email forum - there are numerous reasons
why
this is so:
* Most non-technical users can deal with email easily - other forums are
more complex
* Email can be received by many mobile phones without having to resort
to
web browsing
* It is simple to reply to messages
* You are always aware of new messages, even for topics that you may not
have been interested in initially
However, for those that are interested, birding-aus is also available
as a
Google group:
http://groups.google.com.au/group/birding-aus/topics
You can browse the messages, or click "Topic summary" to get a more
traditional "forum" style list. The disadvantage is that there is no
way to
respond to messages using the group - in other words, it is read-only.
Technically, the difficulty is in converting forum replies to email so
they
can be posted to the birding-aus mailing list.
Paul Dodd
Docklands, Vic
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Martin
Sent: Wednesday, 27 January 2010 6:43 PM
To: Clair Wenborn
Cc:
Subject: Birding-aus a forum?
Hi All, if someone were willing, it would easily be possible to take
advantage of the strengths of both List and Forum. To do this a
moderator
would simply keep the list in its current form but sort the older and
archive material in to topics. The major difficulty that springs to
mind is
that many posts would be able to be categorised in a plethora of ways.
There does seem to be a great deal of new technology and new
programmes that
could be if there were a more relaxed attitude.
Martin
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Clair Wenborn
<>wrote:
Hi All,
I am wondering if it has ever been suggested that birding-aus change
its
format and become a forum? Readers of the digest could still receive
posts
as emails if they wished and the archives would be more searcher
friendly.
Information would be categorised together and easy to refer back to
instead
of being in one long, hard to read string in each email. Users can
then
read
the categories and threads that they are interested in and save time
instead
of reading each subject heading. Security need not be an issue as the
forum
could be private and moderators would be able to see who is logging
on. Or
certain sections of the forum like locations and sightings could
only be
accessed by approved users. Of course it would be up to the list
owner and
the majority of users. Just a suggestion...what does everyone think?
cheers
clair
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