[Someone else just emailed this, but sending to show my agreement] There's that GMane thing that lets you view the mailing lists as a forum?
Personally I've not found any forums as easy to use as a mailing list. Communication in a community is in three ways: 1) Multi-cast 2) Direct communication, 1 to 1 3) Specific broadcast to a select group Mailing lists are good at 1), via a list like this, they can do 2 via simple email and 3 via specific mailing lists. It's hard to run a thread across them though. A forum is worse. It can do 1 well. 3 can be done, though a bit of a pain. 2 usually relies on internal mail on the forum, or external links into your email. IRC is good for all three, but lacks another important aspect, persistence. I prefer the 'mud' communication, but they're analagous to irc I guess. IRC also lacks the concept of threading. This is descending into my pointless opinion on communication :) Hen On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Robert Simmons wrote: > What I meant is on the main Jakarta site. I have used Jakarta for a while > and never even knew about that address. Probably the reason no one uses it. > Mailing lists are not as good as forums for communication. > > --Robert > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jakarta General List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:57 AM > Subject: Re: Forum Software for Jakarta? > > > On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:26, Robert Simmons wrote: > > It would seem to me that the installation of a forum on the Jakarta site > > would dramatically improve communication and the ability of the users to > > collaborate on using and improving Jakarta software. PhpBB, for example, > is > > free and can be downloaded from www.phpBB.com and offers many of the > > features users would find helpful. I would highly suggest this move for > the > > Jakarta site. > > checkout nagoya.apache.org. It has a forum ... no one uses it ;) > > -- > Cheers, > > Peter Donald > *---------------------------------------------------------* > | Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is user-friendly. It | > | just happens to be selective on who it makes friendship | > | with. | > | - Richard Cook | > *---------------------------------------------------------* > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
