The difference is the technical difficulty of posting to the mailing list which requires both surfing the web archive having a mail account and using a mail client or a webmail.
What's the difference between using webmail to compose a message to the list or posting on a forum? You can get a free webmail account in hundreds of sites. Registration for gmail, for example, is quick and easy. If you use firefox, than the gmail compose plugin makes sending mail from the archive as easy as posting to a forum.
The Amuta keeps lagging behind the technology and the local public in this matter
Forums require people to visit them periodically to read new messages. There is no "push" mechanism, and new message notifications don't really count because it requires you to open a web browser for each new message on the forum.
(compare the traffic on Israeli web forums and the transport on Israeli mailing lists).
I do not know where you get your data, but most technically inclined communties use mailing lists and not forums. Almost all free software projects are managed using mailing list (for example, the linux kernel). Mailing list archives provide exactly the same service as a forum. If you have a problem using mail software to compose mail, I can add a web form to post a message. People who want to discuss things using forum systems can do so. There are forums for almost anything FOSS-related on whatsup. Why should we add yet another forum system? Be my guest and try to open a discussion related to whatever you want on whatsup. See how many people read it here and how many people read it there. I don't think the duplication will do any good. Alon -- This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICQ:1366540 GPG public key at http://8ln.org/pubkey.txt Key fingerprint = A670 6C81 19D3 3773 3627 DE14 B44A 50A3 FE06 7F24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -=[ Random Fortune ]=- I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. -- Blaise Pascal
