> -----Original Message----- > From: Marcus (OOo) [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, 24 August 2011 12:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [email protected] [Was: Re: [Discussion] > [email protected]] > > Am 08/23/2011 03:29 PM, schrieb Eike Rathke: > > Hi Marcus, > > > > On Tuesday, 2011-08-23 11:11:35 +0200, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > > > >> And very often they write to the list but aren't subscribed. So they > >> don't get the answer unless someone is CC'ing them. > > > > That actually is a failure of how the list is setup when it has > > Reply-To pointing to the mailing list address (AKA Reply-To mangling). > > Without Reply-To a Reply-All goes to the sender and the mailing list. > > Maybe, but they are still not subscribed. So the moderator has to let the > posts through; again and again until the user is subscribed.
ew,, no that does not have to happen at all. the moderator can do a reply-all , choose the -accept and the -allow addresses then hit send. (of the moderation email). >From then on, no more moderation of that user using that email address. No need to repeatedly let the same user in. Gav... > > >> In a forum all in one place. You can search, write and can get > >> answers. It's up to us if a subscription is needed. It would work > >> without. > >> > >> Furthermore, I don't think that mailing lists are common for the > >> average user. But forums are. > > > > Mailing lists are much more accepted by those who actually help > > because handling is much easier than any web forum. You can setup your > > own scoring, flags, delete unimportant stuff in your personal archive > > and so on. To get the best of both worlds best would be a forum gated > > to a mailing list and vice versa. Searching the mailing list would > > also be possible at mail-archive.com, or gmane.. > > Not before they got to know how this is working. In a forum it is obvious. All > is in one place. > > >>> What if we just had support forums, but no users list? Would we > >>> miss anything? Would users? Note that phpBB forums allow a person > >>> to subscribe to a forum or a topic, so those who want to receive > >>> emails can. But they would need to go back to the forum website to > respond. > > > > And that just sucks. > > > >> I don't think that we or the users would miss anything because there > >> is no chance to miss something as the communitation method is not > >> existing. > > > > Well, I try to avoid forums whenever possible. > > And there are users that try to avoid mailing lists. ;-) > > At the end it seems the best solution is still to go 2 ways: ML and forum. > > Marcus
