Hi Josh, I've discovered several one-off forums that are struggling with the problem of full-circle e-mail integration. But the only hosted systems I've found that really support this interaction are Yahoo Groups and Basecamp.
http://groups.yahoo.com/ http://www.basecamphq.com/ Ning and CollectiveX are web forums with an e-mail component. But neither allow posting from e-mail and only CollectiveX actually includes the contents of new posts in their notification e-mails. Ning just sends a note with the name of the thread and the name of the poster. http://www.ning.com/ http://www.collectivex.com/ There's a free solution called Groupserver which has been built specifically to integrate e-mail with a web forum. It's still in alpha. They have a hosted version that I've played around with, but the customization options are narrow. You can download the alpha version to install on your own server. http://groupserver.org/ As for IxDA, the e-mail component of the discussion list is powered by Mailman software (with some custom tweaks), which generates its own web archive for each post. The website is built off that archive. You can find a basic implementation of this concept by Bob Doyle at List-2-Web: http://www.list-2-web.com/ // jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34639 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
