24 Apr
2022
24 Apr
'22
5:05 a.m.
Le 22/04/2022 à 03:03, Jim Kutsch KY2D via 44net a écrit :
Here's just one vote*NOT* to use Discourse.
It's a discussion system, not email. So we have to go there to see if anything is new
rather than just having info come in our inbox. For me (YMMMV) I find it like having an
inconvenient PO Box that you have to intentionally go visit to see if anything is there
vs. mail being delivered to my home mailbox.
+1. Web forums are terribly time-consuming ! I subscribed to some tenths
of mailing lists. All the messages arrive in the corresponding
sub-folder in my inbox, and I can browse them freely during my (often
very short) periods of free time. I can't afford (and I won't) connect
to some tenths of web forums just to see if someone answered, or simply,
see what's new.
Mailing-lists are simple and efficient systems. Please keep them !
Some systems such as groups.io allow "mixed" usage (mailing-list and web
access), so that anybody can use his favorite "client" system, while the
message base is common.
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Moreover, we are HAM radio operators managing a dedicated IP network.
Why should we use external/commercial solutions for our internal
communications ? My opinion is that, when possible, we should, use
"internal" services, based on free software, and self-hosted on 44net
servers.
And if we need something more "modern", such as a instant messaging /
groupware / social network, we should also look at free software. Some
solutions allow the deployment of decentralized and self-hosted servers,
which is a perfect solution for 44net networks. Some people are already
operating Mastodon or Matrix servers on 44net. Why not adopting a common
scheme, deploying and inter-connecting servers in several regions, and
start using them ? :-)
73 de TK1BI