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Re: Bye Bye Topica, Hello Web forum
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James Franklin
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May 04, 2006 10:04 PDT
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I'm posting to the old mailing list in hope of encouraging some more users
to look into the new discussion forum.
My e-mail is a lot less interesting without this list, but there are a
number of things going on in the new forum that I'm sure will interest
people.
To make it easier to get started, here is the link to the new forum:
http://www.copydesk.org/discussionboard/phpBB2/index.php
The downside is that it is a Web page and requires some browsing back and
forth to find active discussions we might be interested in. However, it
does support something called an RSS feed, which allows us to get the
messages with the right software on our local PC. I don't know a lot about
this but have found one reader that is FREE and quite useful so far, called
FeedReader. It can be found at:
http://www.feedreader.com/?fromfr
The advantage is that it highlights all new messages, even if they are
buried in multiple, separate discussions. And you can simply doubleclick on
a new message displayed in the rightmost panel of the program to open the
forum itself in your Web browser.
There have been requests on the new forum for an e-mail version of the
discussion, and perhaps that will happen. But in the meantime I miss some
of the regular contributors who have not yet shown up on the new board.
The tool I found may make it easier for you to get started, but others may
have found even better tools. Perhaps they can also post pointers to help
people get started.
-- Jim Franklin
James L. Franklin
Metro Slot
Night Desk
Boston Globe
Boston, MA 02205-5819
Email: jimfra-@att.net (preferred), fran-@globe.com
Fax: 508-256-5661 (personal)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Fisher" <dfis-@sc.edu>
To: <ACES-@topica.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 12:34 AM
Subject: [ACES talk] Bye Bye Topica
| | Big news from the ACES convention this week is that this discussion
board will go dark in a few weeks. If you haven't seen the message and
link to the new board off the ACES web site, check it out.
Unfortunately, you have to register again on the new board.
The reqest has gone out on the ACES site not to post on this list
anymore.
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