> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Moose Finklestein > > The big question is (I think) -- what does having forums get you that > mailing lists do not?
People who prefer forums. And people who google for something and then want to join in the conversation that they find. In my opinion, I think the forum people tend to be the younger crowd. (Just my opinion.) Until opensolaris went bust, I thought they were the epitomy of forum / email interaction. I used email exclusively, and a bunch of other people used forums exclusively. There were stylistic characteristics in the way people quoted text that made it so you could identify someone as an emailer or a forum user, but really, either option was perfectly acceptable. I contacted the opensolaris admins to ask what they were using. They were a heavily customized jive forum, and unfortunately, jive itself is very expensive. I researched the topic, and the best I found was regroup. But we only got as far as research - never implemented. At opensolaris, they had significant upkeep effort to keep the web / email interface alive and healthy. Just some more information to add to the datapoint... _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
