On Tue, January 17, 2006 5:03 am, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > <nitpick)USENET has been around since 1980 - NNTP is just a > transport protocol for it</nitpick>
How was the material in USENET slung around before there was NNTP? > <thought>If a web forum is so vital (in some minds[1]) for being > trendy it's not hard to write a web based threaded news reader with PHP > or mod_perl or similar - there might even be one available off the shelf > :) > This would seem to me to be a more useful thing for the OP to do than > setting up a disconnected forum which if succesful may just cause people > to need to track *both*. http://www.gmane.org/ is one example. Hmm... Mail forums are nice for immediate issues, but there also needs to be a resource for people that aren't continually reading the mail. (plug) This is why I have the DragonFly BSD Log ( http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog ) and why there's a searchable mail archive ( http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive ). If we didn't have the mailing lists, a bulletin board system would be handy - however, with the current size of the user base, there isn't enough "overflow". I haven't seen a lot of BB traffic at bsdforums.org or gobsd.org, for instance. If we could combine the mail content and BB interface, that's be great, since I think it's the interface in which the original poster is interested.
