On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
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...
could someone who likes web forums take a look at FUDForum to see if it is
acceptable to them? It will do the job when combined with mailman (which
is what the LOPSA lists are already running on)
David Lang
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