Topic: Editing existing WebBoard message (1 of 5), Read 29 times
Conf: WebBoard - How to use it
From: Pauli Lindgren
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2006 10:20 AM

I wonder what happens with e-mails when you edit an existing message in WebBoard. Will a new e-mail message be sent every time to those who read WebBoard using e-mail?

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Pauli

 

Topic: Re: Editing existing WebBoard message (2 of 5), Read 32 times
Conf: WebBoard - How to use it
From: Ted Green
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:44 AM

At 10:20 AM 3/16/2006, you wrote:
>From: "Pauli Lindgren"
>
>I wonder what happens with e-mails when you edit an existing message in WebBoard. Will a new e-mail message be sent every time to those who read WebBoard using e-mail?

No, if you edit an existing message, a new email will not be sent. Therefore, it is probably better to delete the old email and post a new one with the corrections.

We are now implementing a Wiki system for all of our internal and external documentation for our SpamStopsHere business. I am examining how this could be used for VEDIT too, replacing WebBoard and providing on-line help. The goal is to provide documentation which can be edited by any VEDIT user.

Ted.

 

Topic: Re: Editing existing WebBoard message (3 of 5), Read 35 times
Conf: WebBoard - How to use it
From: Christian Ziemski
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2006 01:45 PM

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:44:00 -0500, Ted Green wrote:

>We are now implementing a Wiki system for all of our internal and
>external documentation for our SpamStopsHere business.

I'm just curious: Which Wiki software do you use?

>I am examining how this could be used for VEDIT too,
>replacing WebBoard and providing on-line help.
>The goal is to provide documentation which can be
>edited by any VEDIT user.

At work I set up a Wiki for me some years ago, used for my own
documentation. (I'm using the software TWiki.)
Later I published it for my coworkers (IT-department) and was hoping
to be able to motivate them to add contents too...

I'm still convinced that a Wiki is an excellent way of sharing
information, especially changing(living) one.

But it is not so good for direct communications IMHO.
Many public Wikis I found in the Web are having a companion forum or
mailing list and vice versa.
In the forum/list there are then links to articles in the Wiki
whereever appropriate.

Perhaps that's a good way to go.


Christian

 

Topic: Re: Editing existing WebBoard message (4 of 5), Read 40 times
Conf: WebBoard - How to use it
From: Ted Green
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2006 01:58 PM

At 01:45 PM 3/16/2006, you wrote:
>I'm just curious: Which Wiki software do you use?
>
>At work I set up a Wiki for me some years ago, used for my own
>documentation. (I'm using the software TWiki.)

We are also using TWiki. :-))

>Later I published it for my coworkers (IT-department) and was hoping
>to be able to motivate them to add contents too...
>
>I'm still convinced that a Wiki is an excellent way of sharing
>information, especially changing(living) one.
>
>But it is not so good for direct communications IMHO.
>Many public Wikis I found in the Web are having a companion forum or
>mailing list and vice versa.
>In the forum/list there are then links to articles in the Wiki
>whereever appropriate.

You might be correct to continue using Webboard, but once the Wiki is up, we may want to simply delete most of the Webboard contents, as there is a lot of old, inaccurate and obsolete information in it.

Also various users have their own VEDIT macro libraries, and I would prefer all macro to be searchable and downloadable from one Wiki site.

Ted.

 

Topic: Re: Editing existing WebBoard message (5 of 5), Read 43 times
Conf: WebBoard - How to use it
From: Christian Ziemski
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2006 02:28 PM

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:58:00 -0500, Ted Green wrote:

>... but once the Wiki is up, we may want to simply delete most of
>the Webboard contents, as there is a lot of old, inaccurate and
>obsolete information in it.

Absolutely agreed!

(And for reference to the past I will have my local data file:
I'm usually accessing WebBoard via Newsreader (Forté Agent - an
excellent offline newsreader).)

>Also various users have their own VEDIT macro libraries, and I
>would prefer all macro to be searchable and downloadable from
>one Wiki site.

I can't wait to see that. ;-)


But what about your wish to be able to participate via mail?
Do you have a solution for that in (T)Wiki?

One can configure TWiki to send notification mails when a topic has
been changed, but I don't know a way of sending messages via mail to
the Wiki.


Christian