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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Similar to this, I set up an Outlook rule that sends all MassPlanners emails to separate inbox.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Sarah Raposa via MassPlanners<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 28, 2025 8:03 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> THOMAS FUDALA <tomfudala@comcast.net><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Nathan Chung <nchung@northamptonma.gov>; Gary Bechtholdt via MassPlanners <massplanners@masscptc.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: [Massplanners] Time for a different platform for MassPlanners?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 02/27/2025 3:32 PM EST Gary Bechtholdt via MassPlanners <<a href="mailto:massplanners@masscptc.org" target="_blank">massplanners@masscptc.org</a>> wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;text-transform:uppercase">Northbridge Community Planning & Development</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">On Behalf Of </span></strong>Nathan Chung via MassPlanners<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sent:</span></strong> Thursday, February 27, 2025 2:50 PM<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Subject:</span></strong> [Massplanners] Time for a different platform for MassPlanners?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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.
<span style="color:black;background:#FFF2CC">It shows 17 different topics, but <strong>
<span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">it's only 6 distinct topics actually</span></strong> with multiple replies per topic.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software__;!!HrHZwXtSIu7ehiYZ!vlJiBR3qCZPPL1Qw8fhKQgtoDPh3VIlMoM5etXFdB3EcXjJgUDUirT-axRnTtcY21cCObA4UMacJL9L4GP3HLQPrCNJI9aYbQpk4D9BW$" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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