One of the reasons we built SWAP was so that we could create
customized information products depending on the needs of the client.
Since the architecture is open and transparent, it's easy enough to
construct whatever sort of information type would be most useful.  For
example, the system can generate email messages, it can generate RSS
feeds, it can allow users to subscribe to particular threads and
receive updates on just those - or it can do ALL of those things.  The
data can be repurposed into pretty much any form necessary.

Mike


On Dec 14, 2007 10:51 AM, Troy Murray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

John,

The presentation yesterday by Trevor Barnes showed that you could subscribe

to a thread, or a whole forum, and receive email when there are new posts

either as they happen, daily digest or weekly digest, so yes.  Seems that

might still give others the "push" communication they like from the list

serve, and then if they want to respond clicking on the link to take them to

the forum.

Not sure if SWAP has that or not.

-t

On Dec 14, 2007, at 10:27 AM, John Gorentz wrote:

Do any of these bulletin board systems give you the ability to post as well

as receive messages via e-mail?    (I just now took a quick look at the

vbulletin faq and didn't see obvious evidence of such a feature.)

John Gorentz

At 01:19 AM 12/14/2007, Peter J Murray wrote:

To complicate things a bit.

PHPbb3 is now gold and out. http://www.phpbb.com

vBulletin 3.7 will be adding several SWAP like features.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=249460

Being added: thread tagging, user created groups, improved member profile

page, and more.

As evidenced by the flurry of messages on NAG after the meeting, despite

votes to the contrary, it seems that asynchronous communications are

important to the group, and a forum would be a great way to keep our

respective mailboxes clean, and still engage in lively discussions. As

someone else mentioned, it would do 80% of what we want.

Peter Murray

James Madison

Ehren Benson wrote:

Troy,

What I mentioned was PHPbb3 (version 3). This is an option that's on the

same functional level of Vbulletin, however offers (I think) more features

both for administrators, moderators and users. Of course the other benefit

is it is open source. It also has built in LDAP and other directory connect

ability. As I mentioned RC8 of it just came out December 1, so the full

version should be available sometime late this month or in January.

I would love to see a forum at least spring out of this that may be a bit

more user friendly than an email list, and given the fact that something of

its nature is fairly simple to get going that even if it's not the top rank

could rank high in the ease of implementation.

I too was surprised that there were so many "other" votes and not many

"other" options brought forward when the floor was opened up.

/Ehren

Ehren J. Benson, MCSE

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*Subject:* [MSUNAG] Collaboration Option "D" - Other

This morning at the MSU IT Exchange we were shown three collaboration tools,

vBulletin, SWAP and Angel. During the voting we were asked which one we'd

choose, along with an option "D - Other". As I remember, there were a number

of votes for "D - Other", but when it was opened up to suggestions there was

only one, PHPvB I believe.

This lead me to wonder why "D - Other" was voted so much; was it because

what was seen in the three solutions wasn't liked, because it was felt there

is a better solution but not sure what it is or felt there is a better

solution but were hesitant to mention it during the session?

Just curious what your thoughts were.

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