Hi all,
it seems that the problem afflicting most of the mailing list users is
the search in the archives.
An alternative to www.mail2forum.com is probably this project:
http://lurker.sourceforge.net/
which basically archives all the mail (even importing old archives) in a
database, and then facilitates the search via web browser interface.
I haven't used it personally before, but from the demo sites it seems to
do a pretty good job.
Once setup, this would automatically sync with the ML and allow people
to better search the archives.
My 2 cents.
Ricky
Paul Melis wrote:
Gordon Tomlinson wrote:
Personally I prefer a forum and think they are 1 trillion quillion times
better than mailing lists, for me it much easier and more accurate to find
past discussions in context than trying to search mail list archives
But thats me ;)
Both approaches have their merits, seems like people have been thinking
about ways of doing bidirectional message transfer between the two:
http://www.mail2forum.com/forums/index.php
Personally, I like the ease of sending a mail on a list over having to
log in to a forum to post. Searching a forum is much easier, but
archives like gmane are pretty decent these days.
Paul
As to concerns about spam from forums I have never gotten spam from my
forums (www.3dscenegraph.com) or others
This subject has been brought up before and the mailing list was prefered by
many and more inportantly prefered by Robert and Don
so I don't think it will change
Best Regards
Gordon
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric
Sokolowsky
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:33 AM
To: osg users
Subject: Re: [osg-users] osgForum
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Schmidt, Richard, SDGE1 wrote:
Soo, much mails coming over the list... why not creating a forum
instead?!
phpBB for example is easy to maintain, lets you several subforums and
subscribe to interesting threads.
This question gets asked every once in a while. Perhaps we should make it
a FAQ.
There are those of us on the mailing list (obviously not everybody) who
prefer mail because it provides several benefits:
1. Every message on the list is received. I don't respond to every question,
but it's nice to see what's going on, and if there is a question that I
do know an answer to, it's much easier to reply in an email than to have
to go to a forum. I believe that people are served less ably with a forum,
as questions are more easily ignored.
2. Messages appear automatically, and quickly. With a forum, you have to
go to the web page and trawl through a clicky-pointy GUI mess. I use pine
for my email client, because it is strictly keyboard-based and fast.
There are probably other reasons not to go to a forum. I would not be as
active in the OSG community if there was just a forum rather than an email
list. It also doesn't make sense to have both because that's just an
unnecessary division of resources. Yes, there are a lot of messages on
this list, and when I get back after having been out of the office for
a few days it is rather daunting to go through 300+ emails, but I think
the benefits outweigh the burdens. I'm glad that the OSG community is
so active and helpful, and I'm happy to be a part of it.
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