On 7/26/07, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 26.07.2007 um 08:06 schrieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > " > > ... > > So when an official forum is blessed by someone, please make sure > > it is > > a forum that has a *bidirectional* email gateway. Anything else is > > simply sub-standard for my usage patterns. > > ... > > " > > -- Rod Whitby > > -- MokoMakefile author > > > > Mail2Forum sounds like it could help: > > http://mail2forum.com/forums/index.php > > > > "Mail2Forum (or M2F) is an add-on software to the phpBB forum system. > > M2F combines the functionality of a mailing list system and a phpBB > > forum in order to add bi-directional 'email to forum' and 'forum to > > email' communication." > > I can hardly imagine how this really works? > > Firstly, please take a look at http://www.oesf.org/forums/ and count > the subforums there. > > In a forum system you have main forums and subforums, i.e. tons of > different boards where each one runs one or more threads (topics). > Ususally you can subscribe to e-mail notifications for each subforum. > This is the main benefit of a forum over a single e-mail list where > everything is thrown in (compare between a large hall where everybody > cries what he wants to say vs. a set of small rooms with special > topics discussions). > > Now, should all new messages of all subfora be mapped to a single e- > mail transmission? Or should each subforum have its own mailing list? > For an unidrectional mode (forum -> list) this could work (even if > new subfora are created). > > But how to respond? How do you want to specify to respond to e.g. > "Developer", "Hardware", "Smalltalk", "First Aid", "Sell&Buy" etc. > through E-Mail? Or even worse: how to create a new thread which > should just go to a specific subforum. On the single mailing list you > would simply drop it in between completely unrelated messages. > > My conclusions is that by this requirement "Anything else is simply > sub-standard for my usage patterns. " some of the special usage > patterns of a forum system have to be given up (i.e. the hierarchical > grouping of different topics/rooms/subfora or however you will call it). > > For me, a single mailing list carrying all topics of everybody is > "substandard"... > > And, another issue is IMHO substandard with mailing lists: it is the > citation style - everybody has a different way of citing previous e- > mails. This is a lot of waste of eye-movements to find the relevant > references. A forum system forces to use a single citation style. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
i imagine this mail2forum provides some sort of "[Subforum]"-tag before each e-mail. To answer to a thread, simply answer the last mail of that thread. To start a new topic, just write "[Subforum]New Topic Name" as Subject of the mail. At least i would implement it this way. And if it isn't so, we could simply write ourselves something like that. I mean: we have plenty of developers in here. This not only allow to have mailing list AND forum, but also to let everybody choose how they want to interact. -- My corner of the web: http://ramsesoriginal.wordpress.com My dream, my world: http://abenu.wordpress.com
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