I have to agree with Darran. The nice thing about a portal/forum situation is that you don't have 15 coppies of the same reply. As an example, this topic alone have had responces with one or two line reply remarks but included the same content as the last two emails on this same content.
Another feature that is better in a portal/forum situation is the ability to search topic threads instead of the message bodies like on the accessgrid.org website. As an example, I went to accessgrid.org and did a searched for "AG Developers mailing list available". I got 139 matches and most of it is not what I was looking for in the first place. Ex. [AG-TECH] [Fwd: [agdp-announce] New AGDP Document: Access Grid OperationalGuide for Linux Was one of the many documents that I came up with. I tried +'s before each word, "..." between the fraises and nothing would let me trim down the list from 139. I just got a lot more junk in my search then if I could of just searched the topic thread alone, like you can in a portal/forum situation. As for the email people out there. Most forums out on the internet will send you an email when new topics or replys have been written and give you a link to go straight to that topic instead of having the navigate the site every time. Here is an example of what I would consider one of the best forum/BB type systems on the net. http://www.iboats.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi You don't have to sign up to search and look around so feel free. Also it sorts the topics by date or last reply, not creation. So if a topic such as this is, is going strong then it will stay at the top for a while. Another one that I consider one of the best is the gentoo support forum. I know the ANL guys have seen that one. :-) Well......my two cents anyways. Adam -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas D. Uram Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:26 AM To: Darran Edmundson Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] AG Developers mailing list available There are archives of ag-tech (and ag-dev) available online, and they are searchable from the accessgrid.org site, so this solution exists now. Over time, as accessgrid.org transitions to a community-run portal site, it would make sense for the lists to be archived there and be searchable. They are, after all, community resources. Tom On 05/26/05 07:05, Darran Edmundson wrote: > (snip) > If Tom and crew are amenable, I'd be interested in pursuing a means of > archiving > ag-tech an ag-dev within the portal. Not a gateway, just a really nice > searchable > archive of acrued knowledge. (I've already got a lot of the code lying > around as > part of an OpenSceneGraph knowledge base system underway.) >
