Karsten Wade wrote: > * A forum is a lower barrier to entry for a target audience (students > and educators using the textbook in a classroom) that is not already > invested in FOSS mailing lists.
I think this is a key reason for a forum interface. I'd strongly suggest a gmane-like or groupserver-like forum interface to the mailing lists. I'm sure there must be some more software out there by now, but I've not been following developments closely. > * Forums are nicer for web search, which is important for a community > help location. This need not be so, but pipermail is awful. Lurker is better. > * Forums allow admins/moderators to control threads more tightly - > move them, combine them, hide them, block them. A mailing is all or > nothing, and you can't selectively block someone from contributing > to a specific thread -- all or nothing. At least in the Mailman I use most, you can selectively block someone from contributing to a specific thread. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for various work http://www.software.coop/products/ _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
