On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Greg <g...@kinostudios.com> wrote: > I've used both phpBB and simplemachines, and far prefer the latter for its > simpler configuration, administration, and what seem like superior > spam-fighting capabilities.
I have seen similar requests on other mailing lists, including those running mailman . On the DIYbio mailing list (about ~3000 users), a handful of individuals had the idea that they could just ask the mailing list to be shut down and all the content ported to a forum. So I challenged one of them to write a mail2forum gateway. There is no particular reason why a forum couldn't also function as a mailing list (as Google Groups is pathetically trying to do), with email replies to threads etc. The current "get notified by email" features aren't the same thing. Jake Stew <jakes...@mail.com> wrote a mail2forum gateway for phpBB and began using it with the diybio mailing list. What's interesting is that nobody used it except for him, not even the others who were wanting a forum in the first place. I don't really have an opinion on this result, but it's sort of funny, and worth sharing, so there you go. Maybe bug him for the phpBB plugin and start using it if you really prefer phpBB or ikonboard or HyperVBulletin or whatever the latest malware is called. What's particularly funny is that Google Groups was trying to pivot their content into a forum (and at the same time murdering all of their USENET content, I guess they don't have thorough automatic tests...). You can see it all over their UI because of their half-assed attempt to convert from using the word "groups" to "forums". I think in part this was an attempt to convince users to use the web UI as a forum, but when people say forum what they really mean is something like Infopop UBB and anything from 1998-2004 that matches the same pattern. - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507 _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
