On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 8:31 AM, MJ Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Nabble, http://www.nabble.com/, seems to be in that category. > > > * 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 >
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