Eric Jeschke wrote:
I think that if you have the right system set up you can have the same
content hosted as both a mailing list and as a bulletin board and
leave the choice of the interface up to the user (this has worked
successfully with mailing lists gatewayed to news systems for years).
You just need the capability in the BB system of having emails properly
posted as thread replies and in having every post to the BB mailed out
on the email list.
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| Unfortunately, if such a thing were to happen, it would need to be a
| complete conversion because you cannot expect people to visit both a
| mailing list and web forum. The community would suffer if we try to
| maintain both. This means that the discussion mailing list would
| ultimately need to be discontinued.
I don't understand why this has to be so. If there is a psychological
reason why the same content can't be interfaced as both a mailing list
and as a web forum I'd be interested to hear it!
It is not a psychological reason, it is a technical reason. There
currently exists no viable mailing list to web board gateway that
maintains the best of both worlds.
Such a thing could however be coded for phpBB. It would be a major
technical hurdle, but it would be a great boon to many communities.
Who would write it though?
Warren
