[wlug_org] Welly LUG list for buy/sell/swap etc

[Tony Wills]

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At 17:20 24/08/04 +1200, Chris Hodgetts wrote:

>Just my personal opinion and 2c worth....

If I could bank all those 2c worth of comments that abound on the internet, 
I'd be rich ;-)

>We have wellylug.org.nz for the website, which then takes you to
>lists.naos.co.nz for the mailing lists.
>
>now not wanting to step on anyones toes here... - everyone does a great
>job with what they  can / do provide...
>
>I personally feel though, that we need to group the website and
>mail-list to a single domain name,
...
>Having another location for the Buy Sell & Exchange site, (Which I think
>is a great idea  BTW) would / could get a bit confusing for new members
>wanting to sign up or be taken allover the net to get where they want to
>go....

I think that's along the lines Brent was thinking too.

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 17:01, Donald Gordon wrote:
> > There has been discussion about having a separate list for buy sell swap
>...
>Another alternative is to host a wiki somewhere with a page listing
>stuff people want to buy/sell, like WLUG's GarageSale page:
>http://www.wlug.org.nz/GarageSale - this has the advantage of
>persistence.

The advantage of a mailing list is no maintenance, messages are transient 
beasts no one needs to maintain a webpage etc ... if the item hasn't gone 
(or been acquired etc) just repost as necessary.
If you do want to have a web version, I really like the phpBB bulletin 
boards - easy to setup (I've set one up already), you can reply to people 
through the board or via email depending upon how they wish to be 
contacted.  You can include pictures etc (although they'd probably have to 
be hosted somewhere else).  You can have separate categories and can have 
messages being automatically expired.

http://list.afraid.org/phpBB2/index.php

All done and ready to roll, give it a go :-)

Of course there may be some wiki vs phpBB politics that I am not aware of ;-)

What I'd really like is a list that had messages sent to a website and a 
mailing list, does anyone know of such an integration? (ie messages sent to 
one are also echoed on the other)  

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