A recurrent thread on this list is the desire to have a fusion of forum and mailing list functionalities
Fora are nice because they can be more organized than a mailing list archive. Email lists are nice because they're better at nudging folks to participate, by making messages intrusively land in their inbox... I poked around a little (because another group I'm involved with had the same need, but more acutely), and it appears that the good old Phorum software http://www.phorum.org provides a Web forum interface, with the possibility of -- receiving posts by email -- making posts by email A Phorum hosting provider, recommended on phorum.org, is http://www.ubiquityhosting.com Note that Phorum is highly customizable, and probably someone with time to fiddle with it (not me) could set up an appropriate configuration for this group So if anyone feels like it, you may want to try to set up an AGI Phorum site.... If you can get it to work like an email list / forum hybrid [posts organized online in categories, but posts received and reply-able by email without any weirdness], then I'd advocate switching the AGI list to that format... Thoughts? -- Ben G -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
