[REBOL] Re: Admin issues: spam EZBoard Anouncement
From: holger:rebol at: 27-Feb-2002 8:14
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:33:59PM -0800, Terry Brownell wrote:
> Noticed a couple posts i made are on Escribe, but didn't make it to my
> mailbox.. which brings up a question... Why don't we move this whole thing
> to a decent board... EZBoard.com is pretty good, sub-categories, proper
> threading, shows how many have read your post and how many replys to each,
> embedded html etc.. and it's free.
The main distribution mechanism has to remain a mailing list, not a
board, forum etc., and we at RT have to keep control over it, for
a number of technical, procedural and legal reasons. This matter has
been discussed in the past several times.
The server our mailing list is running on is a dedicated server, just
for us, connected to two different Internet backbones through dual
T3 lines, so we have excellent connectivity and performance. According
to our email logs delays in email delivery are usually due to problems
at the recipient, e.g. congested SMTP servers.
If someone subscribes some web forum, board, archive etc. to the list
(as has been done with escribe, mail-archive etc. in the past) then
this is fine with us. However keep in mind that if the forum or
board has its own posting mechanism then mails posted that way usually
do not make it back to the main mailing list, so most users (including
the staff at RT) won't see those mails.
--
Holger Kruse
[kruse--nordicglobal--com]
