[FFML] A thought on the future of the FFML

[The Wanderer]

On 06/30/2013 06:47 AM, Paul Henkel wrote:

[that on 06/30/2013 02:24 AM, Dennis Carr wrote:]

>> On the surface, it may be an issue with Mailman.  (Besides, there
>> is already an archive of this incarnation of the list, with other
>> archives visible elsewhere.)
>> 
>> Bu-ut, I believe there are other archival services that are
>> currently being fed, if I'm not mistaken.
> 
> Yes, I found it:
> http://www.chez-vrolet.net/pipermail/ffml/
> So this whole discussion was about having formating and html?

It's rather more about being able to *post* via the Web interface, which
a plain archive of course can't do. There are a number of technical
considerations about doing that which would have to be - ah -
considered, as well as some matters of taste and/or religion which would
have to be decided, in which latter category formatting / HTML falls.

Other aspects of the discussion included the possibility of better
outside visibility and discoverability, and (I think, if only by a brief
mention?) the possibility of revising the rules about what is allowed as
on-topic, in hopes of broader appeal. But the "dual posting interface"
and the issues involved with implementing that largely took over the
thread, and the subsidiary discussion about formatting / HTML largely
took over from that in turn.

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