Subscribe? Where is this done? Once we "subscribe" will we be able to make comments and make new posts? Tom D -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Zanzig via Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2014 11:26 PM To: tmg-refugees@rootsweb.com Subject: [TMG-REFUGEES] Administrivia: website update ... You can now subscribe to the activity on the site. Be aware that this is a prototype and as the site design evolves, I may have to reinitialize subscription lists--be prepared for a little disruption while we work out the basics. ... Barbara Zanzig

There are two types of subscription. One I mentioned in the earlier post, subscribing to recent activity. This is an RSS feed that you subscribe to in your normal RSS reader. Find the Recent Activity page in the site sidebar--there's a button on the page. It's a canned thing; it appeared automagically when I added a recent activity gadget in the site design. Site subscription will happen when I change the site over to allow others to post. The Google Sites permission system is trifold: - anyone can read, - anyone with the site URL can read, or - anyone possessing a specific email can read (and write if I set that up.) This is what I'm calling "site subscription". Right now we are on the middle level. The first two levels require the owner (me) to do all the content. I wish I could do a combo, but it doesn't seem to work like that. I'm investigating methods of gatewaying the site and the mailing list so information on one gets to the other, signup is simple, and so on. The specific-email level will require me to add each new subscriber to the site permissions--but will also let me set up sitewide or page by page write permissions. My thought is that we may have people interested in different areas on the site, who may want to work on, say, GEDcom but not on software news (just as an example.) I'm intending to give anyone who asks (or perhaps every email on the REFUGEES list) read permission, and anyone who's expressed an interest in adding content write permission. I want to be liberal about access without inviting griefing problems. Expect the switchover in a few days, as soon as the basic structure is stable and the access methods make sense. We are new enough we could switch over to a Google group/mailing list, which would allow tighter integration between the mailing list and the website (I could give read access to the group easily). SS-L has been run as a Google list successfully for several years. Does anyone have any comments on this idea? It may even mean we could ditch the website and just use a group. Barbara On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Tom via <tmg-refugees@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Subscribe? Where is this done? Once we "subscribe" will we be able to make > comments and make new posts? > > Tom D > > -----Original Message----- > From: Barbara Zanzig via > Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2014 11:26 PM > To: tmg-refugees@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TMG-REFUGEES] Administrivia: website update > > ... > You can now subscribe to the activity on the site. Be aware that this is a > prototype and as the site design evolves, I may have to reinitialize > subscription lists--be prepared for a little disruption while we work out > the basics. > ... > Barbara Zanzig > > -- Barbara Zanzig TMG-REFUGEES list admin *http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Miscellaneous/TMG-REFUGEES.html <http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Miscellaneous/TMG-REFUGEES.html>* admin email: *TMG-REFUGEES-admin@rootsweb.com <TMG-REFUGEES-admin@rootsweb.com>*