My last message had, indeed, a message when it left my server and, likely, when it went through the moderator, but somehow ended up blank after that. Sooooooo, I'm re-sending a modified message ONCE and if this one is blank there's nothing I can do about it. My last message was that I throught it time that the Highland Park listserv be either replaced by, or supplemented by, a forum software package where messages could be separated by subject and would be available to new arrivals, or new participants. I also think that forums would increase participation as not everyone wants to send e-mail to the listserv for 100% distribution, nor would all participants want to receive e-mail on every subject from every participant. One of my favorite forum software packages is vBulletin from Jelsoft ( http://www.vbulletin.com/ ). There is a charge - $165 for a perpetual license and support for one year, and $30 per year thereafter for updates and service. This is pretty cheap for the capabilities it makes available. The issues then, are: (1) does this move have any support among the Highland Park citizenry; (2) who would pay for it and how (how is the present listserv paid for?); and does this require any changes in the server presently used for the listserv, and, if so, would there be a cost involved. Perhaps the moderator or whom ever is involved in maintaining the listserv has some input on this subject. - Jim
James H. Joseph wrote:
[...] I throught it time that the Highland Park listserv be either replaced by, or supplemented by, a forum software package where messages could be separated by subject and would be available to new arrivals, or new participants.
The Highland Park web site has forums, but we're not using them yet. I hope to announce something about that soon: <http://www.highlandparkpa.com/> Forums have been tried *twice* already in Highland Park that I know of; they failed to catch on. Maybe the growth of the Neighborhood list indicates that they would be successful this time... The first time forums were available was when the Highland Park web site was originally launched in 2000. When I took the site over in 2001 there had only been "test" posts. The second time was during the Community Plan process. The Community Plan site is still up but the barely-used forums there are broken: <http://highlandparkcommunity.com/>
My last message had, indeed, a message when it left my server and, likely, when it went through the moderator, but somehow ended up blank after that.
This problem is caused by sending messages in HTML format with no accompanying text alternative. People sending to the Neighborhood list should not have to worry about such details. I hope to solve this problem by tomorrow. Rudy
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James H. Joseph
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Rudolph T. Maceyko