From lojban-out@lojban.org Sun Apr 27 07:16:05 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_6); 27 Apr 2003 14:16:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 59952 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2003 14:16:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 27 Apr 2003 14:16:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Apr 2003 14:16:04 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 199mwm-0002S8-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 07:16:04 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 199mwZ-0002Qx-00; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 07:15:51 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 07:15:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail3.bluewin.ch ([195.186.1.75]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 199mw8-0002MY-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 07:15:24 -0700 Received: from epfl.ch (213.3.152.189) by mail3.bluewin.ch (Bluewin AG 6.7.016) id 3E675D0C006850E2 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 14:14:52 +0000 Message-ID: <3EABE56C.70507@epfl.ch> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:13:00 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: BPFK phpbb References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-archive-position: 4964 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: gregory.dyke@epfl.ch Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list X-eGroups-From: Gregory Dyke From: Gregory Dyke Reply-To: gregory.dyke@epfl.ch X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out And Rosta wrote: >tsali: > > >>On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, And Rosta wrote: >> >> >> >>>[...] But it's unlikely that it will be >>>practicable for me to participate unless I can compose >>>contributions off-line with the freedom of composition >>>that email offers >>> >>> >>I don't understand why you find the phpbb lacking in "freedom of >>composition". If you find it difficult to compose messages in an edit box >>on the web, why don't you compose the posting in your favourite text >>editor, and then cut-and-paste it into the forum? >> >> > >I don't want to go into details publicly here, because it will seem like >a mere whinge. > > I'll bitch for you despite the fact I don't cmima the BPFK: Although the sending by email of each new post is neat, I find it altogether too much hastle to have to dial up my isp, login to the forum, find where I want to put my post, write it out (something I'd like to do offline so that I don't spend any money) and then dial up again to repeat the whole messy process. It's difficult enough finding the willpower to participate without adding complication. I also realise that the importance of having a forum is that we need to be forced to read all the old postings before we put ours up, and also that everything has to be put in the right place. mu'o mi'e greg