We also came upon this idea a year ago. There are a few problems with it. Mail gets sent once. The advantage of a forum is that you can edit, merge, move and delete things.
Ortwin On 6/13/08, Arnout Engelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 02:48:27PM -0400, Kevin Dean wrote: >> Some people REALLY like mailing lists and some people REALLY like >> fora and never the twain shall meet. :P > > Personally, I don't believe this: to me, it sounds entirely feasible to > create a 'discussion thread respository' which can be accessed with a > web forum interface, a mailinglist interface or an NNTP client. I fail > to see the fundamental difference. > > (of course, there's already gatewaying software like GMANE, some forums > already have quite extensive mail features and some mailinglist > softwares have added some interactivity to their 'archive'. I don't feel > I've seen it 'done right' yet, though, with a central 'message > repository' and several interfaces which are all 'first class citizens'. > > As a hobby project, I started implementing this. I'm currently thinking > of a Java web app with a Hibernate database (postgres/mysql), and > Subethamail serves as an inspiration. This is *way* pre-alpha, but if > anyone would like to cooperate, drop me a note :). > > > Arnout > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
