[FRIAM] Discussion Boards

[Roger Critchlow]

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On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 2:01 AM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb at gmail.com> wrote:

> AVOID proboards.com
>
> They take down fora without any warning or reason under their infamous
> clause 25(a) and they never ever restore a board, so all your work just
> vanishes.
>
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 8:28 AM, Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net
> > wrote:
>
>> Thanks, everybody.  I will look into all of these.  I used GG for several
>> years, but they seemed to stop supporting it, and I am surprised to learn
>> that it still exists.  Sounds like nobody has conquered the chronology
>> problem.  I spent one entire month two years ago trying to write a macro in
>> Word that would reorder posts in chronological order, but never succeeded.
>> One of the worst impediments was my own practice of “larding” other
>> people’s posts.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks again, everybody,
>>
>>
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>>
>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>>
>> Clark University
>>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Gillian
>> Densmore
>> *Sent:* Sunday, March 11, 2018 7:32 PM
>> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
>> friam at redfish.com>
>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Discussion Boards
>>
>>
>>
>> Hopefully it works out for you. As to forum software.I've also had hit
>> and mis for that. As fellow regular joe  I found for just chatting about
>> things Wordpress.com sometimes works really well  The cool thing about that
>> is because it's free and you can try a bunch of different setups if
>> something goes wrong, no worries!
>>
>> Google groups is kind of a mess and I didn't know it was still around to
>> be honest.
>>
>> I've found FaceBooks groups work well. lol though I humoursly point out
>> that also comes with all the weird stuff of facebook and you need to invite
>> someone to get them started.
>>
>> It'll come down to what you like more though. Wordpress.com is free you
>> instead of posting rants and raves (like I do one place) to it post stuff
>> about what you've read
>>
>> Their's also goodreads. I simply don't know if you can still make a group
>> their or not.
>>
>> Just some ideas from one everyday joe to another.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 6:53 PM, Nick Thompson <
>> nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am about to be exiled again to the Mosquito Infested Bog, this time for
>> a whole six months.  In an effort to retain my sanity, I am thinking of
>> starting an online reading group on Peirce or related topics with a view to
>> future collaborative writing.   *Does anybody know of an internet
>> discussion utility which faithfully preserves the ORDER of communication? * This
>> would mean at least that the most recent communications on each thread
>> would  be at the bottom of the list.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>>
>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>>
>> Clark University
>>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>>
>>
>>
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