i'm one example of this - since long time mailing list exists (and i were using internet regularly for more than 10 years), and only now with gmail i'm getting enough 'courage' to subscribe into mailing lists - all the time i were (and will be for sure) much more addict of 'forae' (i'm not that good in latin language; is 'forae' the plural of 'forum'? ;-) )
as well, i think also is lots easier to point an url of a forum post than locating an url of an archived post of mailing list... and getting posters connecting each others by this way... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Nathan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:51 AM, James Paige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The blog-like interface does allow posting. The newsgroup-thread >> interface does not. > > I like the idea of switching from a mailing list to phpBB. There are > many great features of bulletin boards: > * user icons > * getting email notifications for some threads and not others > * sticky topics and announcements > * easy to moderate if necessary > * syntax highlighting for code snippets > * uniform interface for html links in messages > * ability to upload screenshots and include in messages > > Apart from the features, I think nowadays people are more comfortable > joining a forum than subscribing to a mailing list. > -- > Nathan Whitehead >
