Hello Kero/Jeff et al, A NZ-grown opensource project that addresses the mailing list VS forum problem might help here - http://onlinegroups.net/
It functions a lot like Yahoo Groups and gives people the *option* of choosing their desired interface, i.e. mail client or web forum. Just my 2c. Kind regards, Tim On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 08:19 +0200, Kero van Gelder wrote: > > Is that searchable? Is it threaded? Will there be someone on 24/7 that is > > knowledgable and helpful? > > > > I understand that some people love IRC and mailing lists. But users expect > > to search and ask questions in a forum, not on a mailing list and IRC. I > > think it's about time for some forums. > > Funny, I expect to ask questions at IRC and search archives. > and I expect messages to be archived indefinitely, as a mailing list does > (I've seen many forums that don't, unless you mark "sticky"...) > > Besides, the usabilty of those forums is very clunky compared to a decent > email client. And if you want a webpage for these things? Use gmail. > > Now, if you like the subforums feature of forums, perhaps the conclusion > would be that we need more mailing lists. Atm, I doubt that. What would > be bad is to start a forum with the same scope next to an existing mailing > list, so we would have two places to search for the same thing. > > Bye, > Kero. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
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