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Re: Private boards?
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Fri, 1 Dec 2000 21:08:01 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger writes:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 06:15:34AM +0000, Rick Clark wrote:
> > Okay, so here's a question. Is it technically possible, and/or feasible to have
> > private, possibly password-protected boards set up?
> > 
> > The reason I ask is that my local train club does its internal communications by
> > email, and it is quite a burden on my inbox. Plus the messages are all mixed in
> > with spam and other messages, etc. I know I can do filtering and stuff, but I'd
> > rather just go to a Lugnet board. Lugnet's a clean, easy interface, and has some
> > real nice display options.
> > 
> > Or would I rather swing on a star? ;-)
> 
> Can't help you with lugnet, but for wamaltc and wamalug private
> communications, we use egroups[1].  I'm not completely happy with it, but it
> does allow you to run votes, store files, and manage a calander...  in
> addition to web posting and reading, archives, and a mailing list...
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> [1] http://www.egroups.com

Thanks! I'll check it out.



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  Re: Private boards?
 
(...) FWIW, since Todd never answered, I'll poke my nose in and say that at an early NELUG meeting, we asked Todd for something similar, and he declined. I can't remember if it was a technical issue, or a Lugnet-focus issue, though. eric (26 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Private boards?
 
(...) Can't help you with lugnet, but for wamaltc and wamalug private communications, we use egroups[1]. I'm not completely happy with it, but it does allow you to run votes, store files, and manage a calander... in addition to web posting and (...) (26 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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