On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Melvin<[email protected]> wrote: > We ran into this on another project I was following and they managed to > find some means of cross feeding the 2 mechanisms. All the email got > fed to the forums, and the forum posts got fed to the mailing list. I'm > not sure how they managed it, or even what flavor of the forum and > mailing list packages they were using but is seemed to work out well. > Everybody got to handle things in which ever way they preferred. > > I guess I should do some digging and see if there is something that > might be transportable to this project.
Hi all, just "listening in" here ... FWIW and I guess it doesn't help here but that's a nice feature of Yahoo Groups and (I think) Google Groups. They don't really distinguish between a forum and a mailing list. A group can behave as both at the same time. They have two user interfaces to the same data and people choose which they prefer. I guess another way of saying it is that they are a mailing list with a live threaded archive that you can post to if you prefer web based. I think forums became popular because they're easy for someone to install on cheap hosting accounts which don't usually give an easy way to hook into incoming mail. Cheers Ross ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
