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My two cents are that I agree wholeheartedly with this, especially regarding searchability. Another feature that it seems is sorely needed is a more efficient method of document sharing. People are constantly asking for examples of RFP/RFQs, job descriptions,
etc and it seems like having a repository for those rather than folks directly emailing and forwarding to others would be a lot better. Given all of the communication and document storage tools available these days, the list serv is clunky.</div>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: MassPlanners <massplanners-bounces@masscptc.org> On Behalf Of massplanners-request@masscptc.org<br>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2025 12:00 PM<br>
To: massplanners@masscptc.org<br>
Subject: MassPlanners Digest, Vol 46, Issue 26<br>
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Message: 1<br>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:50:23 -0500<br>
From: Nathan Chung <nchung@northamptonma.gov><br>
To: massplanners@masscptc.org<br>
Subject: [Massplanners] Time for a different platform for<br>
MassPlanners?<br>
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Dear MassPlanners subscribers,<br>
Forgive me if this has been raised already, but I am wondering if it is time for a different platform for MassPlanners. The current group email format is visually overwhelming and makes it hard to search past conversations. For example, at the bottom is the
screenshot of the Digest that arrived in my inbox. It shows 17 different topics, but *it's only 6 distinct topics actually* with multiple replies per topic.<br>
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I think for the forum to progress into a more effective forum for sharing and storing knowledge, moving to a different platform, perhaps a web bulletin forum, might be necessary. This is a deep IT question, and I only have surface knowledge of it from my past
work experience in a specialized field of IT. One risk is with so many forum software out there, if you choose the wrong one, that can cause difficulties. Here's a Wikipedia list:<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software" id="OWA166c82be-9ae5-641e-6ead-086b7a546779" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software</a><br>
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The amount of messages and valuable information that is getting buried has gotten to the point that I wanted to bring this up now rather than later.<br>
Thank you.<br>
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Nathan Chung, Land Use Planner<br>
Office of Planning & Sustainability for the City of Northampton, MA nchung@northamptonma.gov; (413) 587-1262<br>
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