It seems like every time somebody tries to change this it never
sticks.  I vote just keep it going the way it is.  Gmail does a nice
job of squashing all the replies together, for the most part.  There
are no doubt better methods than this, but for some reason the new
plan never sticks.  I remember a fancy message board setup of a couple
of years ago.  I liked it, but it never took hold.

On 11/16/12, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
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