Why?
Ahm every modern Forum can be set to send an email for every post to all readers of the thread including the message Don't understand me wrong, for me a maillinglist is the "cheapest" method. If my mailserver have 100 or 5000 mails more a day I don care. A forum on the toher side with lets say 100 active user or 500 is a big difference and much more load. But I think a forum with email reminder at new posts is better. You can have moderators, you can close senseless threads. You can stick the important ones . You can make read only or hidden subforums for developers all real usefull things. Not only as an archive. If is good structured its also able to suite the patches and stuff like this. Ill take a look which forums can link to a maillinglist but chances are not that great. One another big plus for a forum is that all communication is stored in the database permanently. So we can do everything with it (like latest post from an moderated new patch thread as an topnews on the homepage..and stuff like this) Also register new user is easier for the most users on a forum. On the other hand maillinglist have 3 advantages: You can use them directly from the mail client. You see all new and actual post and reaction mabe better cause everyone getting remindet and answering is a oneclick thing Everyone can archive the list byhimself (maybe someone wanna do this but i don't think much users will do) But there not that easy to search even with a good webinterface for the archive. Its not that easy to answer on an old thread without having the original message (copy and paste grr) All messages are in single files like mbox.. don't make it easier to transfer them into antoher application If someone spamms, the moderation can only prevent future spams, but the old one are on way while in a forum you can mass delete with one click, lock ips, ... So I think there many advantages and new users (which don't know how to use majordomos mailing lists or afraid to try) can come easier BUT if to many people mean they would join a list but no forum we can only do a maillinglist Otherwise we would split existing users into 2 groups (and we have not so many active users) so the danger is great that both can break the community to death On the other hand. Maillinglists are not suiteable for big traffic. Ok they can to it but the "fast response and inform effect" is gone when oyu recive 30 or 50 posts a day. It will suck very fast,.. youll just going to delete and don't read most messages. Make also no sense transport the hole traffic to everyone so I think a forum with email reminder would be better (guess why every other project has mostly forums and if they have a maillinglist only as an addition for a small user group) Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Mark Rogers Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2008 14:08 An: dspam-users@lists.nuclearelephant.com Betreff: Re: AW: AW: [dspam-users] Re: Dspam Project still active? Imposit.com - Webmaster wrote: Ill take a look which forum we should use (maybe the typo3 forum or something like phpbb or so) But if I see interest ill do both (maillinglist and forum) this week Well if you can find a forum with a mailing list link that would suit everybody. I think forums are great for archiving but I'll read pretty much everything dspam related that comes through my inbox, whilst I only go to forums when I am looking for something (I don't hang around in them "just in case"). In my experience that's quite common, particularly amongst devs. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG !DSPAM:1011,490865cb150922881812596!
