On Jan 24, 2010, at 3:10 AM, Andrea Raimondi wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Sidney San Martín <s...@sidneysm.com> wrote: >> Two separate systems? That doesn't sound so ideal. > > Uhm, no, obviously not what I meant :-) > I meant that the list could be kept alone with the "swat team" doing > the dirty work.
Do you mean something other than keeping the list running alongside the forum? >> I [suggested providing mailing list-style access][1] on the forum. That >> would be the best of both worlds. jQuery is certainly not >> the last project that's going to move away from a traditional list, and now >> is our best chance to make access over standard >> protocols (like email and NNTP) the standard, by convincing Zoho to add it >> for us. > > Having malining list access on the forum imho poses a tremendous > problem: it's fine when you read, but how's the system supposed to > "point" the message to the correct thread? If you think about it a > minute, you'll see that there could be a problem. That problem was solved long ago by CRMs and bug trackers. Emails coming from the forum just need to come with a tag in the subject line or a unique reply-to address. There should also be a general email address for each sub-forum that's used to start new threads. > NNTP is, imho, blind friendly and at the same time standard giivng > impaired users the same "chances" to interact. > >> [1]: >> http://forum.jquery.com/topic/pining-for-a-mailing-list-interface-to-the-forum > > -- > Andrea Raimondi > Senior Software Analyst&Developer
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