| 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.
I guess that (barring some new hacking) leaves news<-->mail gateways as the best solution for implementing this kind of hybrid system. I've had trouble finding decent web-based newsreaders though. There is a PHP module for NNTP, which a few of the readers I've seen use. They are all pretty primitive compared to a full graphical newsreader like Mozilla though. And why not use Mozilla? 1) Some people cannot be bothered to configure a news reader, even though it is pretty trivial; they just want to point their browser at the site and have it "just work". 2) A news backend doesn't give you some of the advantages that a database-backed BBoard can give you. I'm suprised this functionality (email gateways) is not in the web forum software yet; it's not like this is rocket science. --Eric Eric Jeschke http://redskiesatnight.com/
