Simon Jakesch ([email protected]) wrote: > On the forum front: Mike is correct, there is a large populous > preferring forums over mailing lists.
But why? That's what I don't understand. There are countless highly successful public projects (the Linux kernel, git, and OpenStack to name just three) which operate perfectly well using mailing lists. > That's why there's products > that actually allow both methods of interaction. Send an new topic > email to the list and it becomes a new thread on the forum, reply > via the forum and it gets send back to the list. Jive actually does > this very well. I haven't seen Jive, but all the ones I've seen screw up the formatting and add header/footer bloat when passing the message through the gateway. If Jive allows and preserves plain text communication then I'd be interested to try it. _______________________________________________ Crowbar mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar For more information: http://crowbar.github.com/
