Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > I do not feel the forums and mailing list need to be synchronized. > > They are two different mediums, and should be treated as such. > > I disagree.
I would also like to unify forums and mailing lists, for purely egotistical reasons - I really dislike the web. My idea for this since many years is to have an IMAP interface to forum databases, so that an email program can be used to access the forum contents. It never progressed far beyond the idea stage though, except maybe for small involvement with the BincIMAP project. BincIMAP has backend abstraction so a SQL backend should be kindof straightforward. I believe this would help usability tremendously - I think a lot more users would be able to interface with forums if they had a decent interface without so much clutter. //Peter
