alan c wrote: > Mr W. F. Vening wrote: >> Is it only me that finds mailing lists to be very non user friendly? >> And IRC is quite good when there is a meeting going on but there is >> not much which can get done when there is just a few active members. > > I generally *only* use mailing lists and I do not find them a problem > at all. > What is it that you find user unfriendly about a mailing list? > > I do use various forums but never on a regular basis. I find web based > access cumbersome. > > It would be absolutely essential - for me - that a forum had a good > facility to receive and send email. There are very few of these I > think. A notable type that I do use regularly is yahoogroups - they > are both web based and also email based, and work well (on email > anyway). Yahoo took the facilty over from the earlier egroups some > years ago. >
Further information: The Ubuntu marketing list is currently discussing the possible use of a forum. The facility of a bridge between list and forum is said to be an easy thing tpo do: extract from a recent message: ============== [snip] Ryan says a bridge is no problem at all. So - I'm just waiting to hear a few more opinions, and then I'll head over and do it. - -- Jenda VanA"?ura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG: 519D056A Jabber me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFpVQokfxlW1GdBWoRAvy4AJ4v5Mx3hVYH8SiVHK8V9Vzrrv9DoQCggn8d lE3MbqqN1fjsu3TedBgM26A= =8WNd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ============== -- Kubuntu user#10391 Linux user #360648 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
