Re: [tdf-discuss] New support list suggestion

On Nov 22, 2010, at 17:18 , Michael Wheatland wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:10 AM, James Wilde <wilde.james@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Will these automatically post the question on the nabble forum and thus on the mailing list?  
> > And will the answers come back from the nabble forum and the mailing list, or are these separate 
> > support sites?
> > If not yes to both questions, I would agree with Friedrich that there's a danger of being 
> > divided and conquered with these support accounts on the social networks.
>
> The Drupal system is able to directly communicate with Twitter,
> Facebook and some other social networks currently. So the aim is 'yes'
> we will have this type of integration.
>
> To add a little meat to your question:
> We are looking to improve the system while maintaining legacy support
> for the old protocols.
>
> Nabble is an add-on to the mailing list archive as a graphical overlay
> of the mailing list system. The current plan is to build a forum as
> the central platform off which will hang in/out protocols for mailing
> lists, news servers, XML (RSS or atom), social networks and any other
> protocol which people throw our way. This way if someone asks a
> question on facebook, it could be answered by someone on a mailing
> list and redelivered to facebook as a reply while the accessable
> archive remains on the Drupal site (forum or other tool set). In this
> respect Nabble and the mailing list archives will become redundant and
> the contents of which will be relocated in the Drupal system.

Awesome.  This sounds good!

//James


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