Re: [DMCForum] Re: Official word on migration... I guess...

[Jon Heese <dmcforum@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know there is bulletin board software that includes this feature 
(two-way email support) because I helped write it a few years ago.

The specific application is called DigiPosts, made by a company called 
Digi-Net Technologies (http://www.digiposts.com).  It is a Java Servlet 
that runs in any servlet engine (i.e. Apache Tomcat, ServletExec, etc.). 
  It is pretty expensive software, but *ahem* I have an unlimited 
license sitting around somewhere *ahem* if anyone is interested in 
reviewing it.

Otherwise, it serves as an example that it can be done; and it's really 
not all that tricky either.  In PHP (or any CGI scripting language) it 
would be a little tougher, but I wouldn't imagine it'd be that bad. 
After some cursory searching, I didn't find a phpBB module for it, but I 
wouldn't be surprised to find something with a more in-depth search.

Regards,
Jon Heese

Dave Stragand wrote:
> Yes, we can copy the new posts to the list without a problem.  Replies from
> the lists to the forum, however, are an entirely different matter.  To the
> best of my knowledge there is no BBS that currently has this feature, and
> imagine it would be very difficult to implement.
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> From: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
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> Subject: RE: [DMCForum] Re: Official word on migration... I guess...
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> My understanding is that some of these web-based
> systems have support for people that want to continue
> using the e-mail based "list" format.
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> I suggested we take it a step further, and "subscribe"
> the Yahoo group to the web group so all posts are sent
> to the Yahoo system.  This way, both systems will be
> supported....  I suspect people will slowly migrate to
> the web-based system as they become more comfortable
> with it and want to explore the new features.
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> Let's not be so hasty as to dump one for the other.
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