Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Ken Penner <kpenner AT stfx.ca>]

For those who missed it: The new forum is at 
http://biblicalhumanities.org/bhebrew/
An Atom feed is available at http://biblicalhumanities.org/bhebrew/feed.php 
for RSS feed readers.

Ken M. Penner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
2329 Notre Dame Avenue, 409 Nicholson Tower
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, NS  B2G 2W5
Canada
(902)867-2265
kpenner AT stfx.ca




-----Original Message-----
From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Richard
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 9:25 PM
To: 'Biblical Hebrew'
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] B-Hebrew Forum is Open!


I missed it. Where is the new forum at? I think I'm glad about it. I would 
have easily been able to find this answer in the new forum.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:b-hebrew- 
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ken Penner
> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 2:53 PM
> To: Petr Tomasek
> Cc: Biblical Hebrew; Kirk Lowery
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] B-Hebrew Forum is Open!
> 
> Petr, perhaps some of us can provide some pointers for those who, like 
> you, are concerned that some functionality will be reduced. Some of 
> the features you mentioned are in fact available in phpBB forums.
> If I understand you, the features you want are:
> 1. threads view;
> 2. display subject only;
> 3. search;
> 4. identify new posts (since your last visit); 5. identify latest 
> posts; 6. local copies of all posts.
> 
> I have configured my MUA to read phpBB messages through RSS; I find 
> this superior to reading them as emails.
> Perhaps we can do something similar with yours. Are you using Mutt 
> 1.4.2.2i?
> 
> Ken
> 
> Ken M. Penner, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor, Religious Studies
> 2329 Notre Dame Avenue, 409 Nicholson Tower St. Francis Xavier 
> University Antigonish, NS  B2G 2W5 Canada
> (902)867-2265
> kpenner AT stfx.ca
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:b-hebrew- 
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Petr Tomasek
> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 4:28 PM
> To: Kirk Lowery
> Cc: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] B-Hebrew Forum is Open!
> 
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 10:07:12AM -0400, Kirk Lowery wrote:
> > The new B-Hebrew Forum is now open!
> >
> > As previously announced, this email discussion list is moving to a 
> > web-based forum. We will NOT be automatically creating accounts for 
> > current members. If you wish to continue to participate in this 
> > community, you MUST register and create a new account.
> >
> 
> Dear b-hebrew moderators and members!
> 
> I consider this very unfortunate. The web forum (and especially phpPP) 
> is in my eyes very user unfriendly to the reader and provides much 
> inferior user experience compared to what a decent MUA can provide (no 
> threads view, no possibility to display subjects only, forced 
> pagination which makes it very hard to search for something, and - 
> what is the worst - the need to dive into every topic to see if there 
> is something new and the impossibility to see just the lates posts 
> from the entire forum).
> 
> Moreover, with a mailing list, every list member has an access to all 
> emails sent (so that no stupid censorship can occur). Everyone can 
> have his private archive so that if someone decides to shut down the 
> forum, one still have an access to what have been written so far.
> 
> Therefore I will not register within the new forum, It would just cost 
> me too more energy and time.
> 
> However, if someone would like to continue with a mailing list on 
> biblical Hebrew, I could possibly try to create one privately. Please 
> contact me privately on this email, if you are interested.
> 
> 
> Petr Tomasek
> 
> 
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