[ewg] [Fwd: a forum?]

[Justin Clift]

On 05/07/2010 02:13 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 09:05 -0700, Jeff Becker wrote:
>> FYI.
>
> Unless it was only a gateway to/from a/the mailing list(s), I would
> vehemently vote against forums.  Creating un-gatewayed formus in
> addition to keeping the list(s) would, IMHO, just serve to fragment the
> community.

A gateway'd version is an interesting idea.

As a thought, it.. the software chosen would need to be evaluated 
carefully.  Forum spammers are getting *really* good at creating spam 
accounts even with every capture image known to man enabled.  :(

We've recently closed our forum to all new registrations because we're 
getting in excess of 200 new spam users per day.  (that's not peak, 
that's consistent.  ~1500/wk per week, every week. ugh)

For an open source project like Salasaga, where we haven't even launched 
yet and are still don't have our first beta available, it really hasn't 
helped. :/

One the plus side though, for a long time before the recent spam user 
deluge, we've gotten a lot more "end user" types using our development 
snapshots and communicating experiences about them with us through our 
forums.  Including picking up volunteers that contribute directly.

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift


> b.

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