REFLECTOR: Reflector Modernization

[Richard J. Gentil]

With all the talk about the great job Brett has done with VelocityXL I 
have been wondering why the group has not switched from email to a 
forum? (I have been meaning to mention this for ages now and this seems 
to be the perfect opportunity to bring it up.)

I have been running phpBB (as an example) for just under 8 years now and 
it is a great way for a community to keep in touch and it is a fantastic 
way to build a helpful database for builders, not to mention tracking 
the progress of any thread. What Brett did was take every reflector 
email and load then into the forums. (I assume he is using the .crontab 
to do this automatically.) We should do the opposite.

For people wanting to see emails, a compromise would be for the forms to 
send out each post as an email to the people who select the option. The 
only issue would be that someone wanting to reply would have to post in 
the forums. (But there could still be ways around that.)

Some of the other benefits would be the option to post large pictures in 
the forums and not be limited to the postage stamp size pics we have now.

 Richard