From: Jason Tan Boon Teck <jasontn@pc.jaring.my>
Date: Jun 8, 2004
Subject: RE: [SamadNet] Progress of portal

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Hi Bala,


Sorry for talking too much geek. :-)

<layman>
The Portal runs on Mambo, an Open Source software (software generally
written by volunteers and is free as in freedom and generally free as
in free beer as well). The various functions such as news, archives,
user registration, chat forum, etc. are written by different groups of
volunteers.

Since Mambo is fairly new, not all the functions are functioning stably.
The forum function written by Two Shoes Module Factory is now finally
usable without causing problems to the server.

Without a forum function, I have to personally screen every incoming
mail and determine whether I should redirect it to the list or not. I
also have to make an archive of that outgoing mail to be stored on the
website for easy viewing. Mistakes do happen because of this clumsy
approach, such as "forwarding" your recent mail when I should have
press the "Redirect" button instead. There are subtle differences.

And without the forum functions, many of the mails directed to me
alone would flood your mailboxes without any moderation (if we use an
unmoderated mailing list such as usenet, yahoo groups, etc.).
</layman>

Hope that explain things a little bit.

Regards,

jason


>Hi Jason,
>
>Thanks for staying the course. Hope you're feeling much better now.
>
>Could you please decipher some of the stuff written below so that us
>non IT folks can understand ?
>
>Cheers,
>Bala
>
>
>
>From: jasontn@pc.jaring.my (Jason Tan Boon Teck)
>To: samadian@yahoo.com
>Subject: [SamadNet] Progress of portal
>Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 02:47:04 +0800 (MYT)
>
>
>Dear all,
>
>
>Sorry for the long silence. I've been unwell.
>
>I've some good news. Two Shoes Module Factory has finally released Simple
>Board 1.0 Stable. It is a FORUM component for the Mambo server that was
>undergoing beta testing recently.
>
>http://www.tsmf.jigsnet.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
>
>IMHO, the forum is vital to the success of the SamadNet Portal as the
>anticipated volume of chatting will flood your mailboxes if we use e-mail as
>the primary method of communication.
>
>We'll integrate this module and perform some initial testings. We'll open it
>to Public Beta testing once we are satisfied with the portal. We'll keep you
>posted.
>
>On another note, I noticed from the logs that we've been getting a lot of
>visitors daily to the current website. I'll update it as soon as I can and
>do continue to spread the word.
>
>
>L8R
>
>Jason Tan Boon Teck
>http://samadian.tripod.com/prakash.html
>