[K12OSN] Opinions on a Forum

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 16:55 -0500, Shane Sammons wrote:

> As for the forums > wiki, I hate the K12 Wiki, phpwiki just looks so
> blah...

I don't think you understand the concept of a wiki.  If you don't
like something, change it.

> Again, thanks, and I will see how I feel and how others way in at.
> Hopefully if I do get a forum up I can put aside enough time to
> contribute good topics and set it up with some useful initial
> information.

Try joining a few dozen mailing lists and forums before you decide
which you like better. Forums become very cumbersome when you have
more than a couple of interests.  What I've been doing with mailing
lists (just not this one yet) is move them to a gmail account which
I've set up to permit POP access but to save an archive copy.  That
way I read/reply in my normal mailer and can delete as I go, but
if I ever want to backtrack or search for old messages I can use
the gmail web access to do it across all my lists at once.  The price
is right (free), they screen spam, and you get 2 gigs of archive
space.

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com