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Is an example of how it works. Messages composed either on web or via email.

I don't have much more details, but will dig more into it.

If anyone posts or has contact with the proafiles guys, could you let them know we are working on a thing for them, and a few other yahoo groups?

I love that hit list. To be clear #4.2 you would like both web and email replies supported, right?

On June 27, 2018 8:28:24 PM UTC, "mcrawf@nuomo.com [harryproa]" <harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au> wrote:
|Erutan,
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|You may be wrong, but if I'm not willing to pony up and do the work, my
|opinion doesn't matter all that much, does it? ;-)
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|[Disclaimer: I do a lot of volunteer work for an association that
|shares a dock and harbor, and my general feeling is that people are
|welcome to have opinions if they show up to help. Otherwise...]
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|Instead of focusing on a product for the time being, I'd first focus on
|criteria.
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| I'll posit the following...
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| Priority A
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| - Forum with threads and email copies
| - Ability to reply to an ongoing thread via email
| - Ability to host files, photos, and other media in folders
| - Ability to import the Yahoo archive
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| Priority B
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| - In WordPress, using plugins, so it can be deployed anywhere
| - With a common skill set in the industry
| - On the Harryproa site (so everything gets backed up at once)
| - Preferably tested in the latest WordPress
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|MailMan is better than the solution I've implemented (which is
|nothing), but I'm not sure about whether or not it hosts files, and the
|plugin page shows it hasn't been tested in the last three major
|WordPress updates.
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|That said, I'm not sure if there's a path to go from Yahoo to
|BuddyPress, so it might not be perfect.
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|Perhaps bbpress or another gets to all the criteria. Or something like
|"Forums by Website Toolbox" could be used to import data and then move
|it over to bbpress or buddypress.
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|Fwiw, I've got most of the forum posts in an email folder going back to
|January 2010. I believe those could be exported and then imported into
|most packages.
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| - Mike
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