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.
-- 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