Well, I think that forums can easily (and should) replace mailing lists. I see several reasons for this :
1) Search. Searching mailing lists archives is painful, and I'm sure most people will just post the same question again without trying to search first. Forums are much more efficient in searching by subject, body, poster, date, etc. 2) Organisation. Beside major groups like bugs, devel, user, most forums provide sub-groups allowing to segregate a group in several major areas (e.g. Development->Web Interface, Development->Core, etc) 3) Traffic. I'm an Internet Ecologist(tm) and I strongly see the mailing list traffic as a totally useless bandwidth nuisance, mostly because when someone subscribes to a mailing list he reads everything the first week, the second week he deletes without reading, the third week he creates an automatic folder rule and never reads most of the content ever again. Spam moderation is not so much of an issue, as long as you have to be authenticated to post, and being part of several dozens of forums I never seen any spam in them. That's my 0.02$ advocacy, hope it helps :-D Cheers Clipper > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yasser Sultan > Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 16:03 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Kannel Message Boards? > > IMO It would be great if you consult the Kannel project > maintainers and have their views about it, so that you can > have official forums just like the mailing list > > yes, I agree that the they should be on the kannel site > hosted on a subdomain or something like kannel.org/forums > > The only problem with forums is that they also need to > closely moderated because of spam and other useless messages > that people often post > > Regards > Yasser > > -- > Talk about Love & Friendship at Latestngreatest Forums > http://www.latestngreatest.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl > > > >From: "Anand Gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: Anand Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Bill Brigden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >CC: [email protected] > >Subject: RE: Kannel Message Boards? > >Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:51:40 +0530 > > > > >Would people see the mailing lists as redundant if there >were web > > >based > >forums? > > > >well both can serve the purpose, at times mailing lists are > better and > >sometimes forums. > > > >-- > >regards, > > > >Anand Gupta > > > > > >________________ Original message ________________ > >Subject: RE: Kannel Message Boards? > >Author: "Bill Brigden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Date: 18th July 2005 1:32:16 > > > >What do other people think about the possibility of having a > web forum? > >Would people see the mailing lists as redundant if there > were web based > >forums? > > > >As far as the name / location - could it be put under kannel.org, > >either as being hosted there, or using a sub domain > >(forums.kannel.org?) pointing elsewhere? > > > >Regards, > >Bill. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anand Gupta > > > Sent: 18 July 2005 12:58 > > > To: Gareth Reakes > > > Cc: Bill Brigden; [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: Kannel Message Boards? > > > > > > I am ready to register and host the forums if members here can > > > recommend a domain for the same. I posted earlier also however no > > > commented till now. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > regards, > > > > > > Anand Gupta > > > > > > > > > ________________ Original message ________________ > > > Subject: Re: Kannel Message Boards? > > > Author: "Gareth Reakes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: 18th July 2005 10:34:28 > > > > > > Hey, > > > > > > I think it would be a good idea. Who is going to take > the lead on > > > this? > > > > > > Gareth > > > > > > Bill Brigden wrote: > > > > Just a short note to say I would be willing to help in any > > > ways (within > > > > reason!) necessary.. > > > > > > > > Bill. > > > > > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > > > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yasser Sultan > > > >>Sent: 15 July 2005 17:28 > > > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >>Cc: [email protected] > > > >>Subject: Re: Kannel Message Boards? > > > >> > > > >>I don't think that they will be too resource intensive form > > > >>hosting point of view, so It should not be a problem > for anyone to > > > >>set them up. > > > >>Yeah I will be willing to help :) > > > >> > > > >>-Cheers > > > >> > > > >>Yasser > > > >> > > > >> > > > >>>From: Gareth Reakes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >>>To: Yasser Sultan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >>>Subject: Re: Kannel Message Boards? > > > >>>Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:15:54 +0100 > > > >>> > > > >>>Hey Yasser, > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>>Yasser Sultan wrote: > > > >>> > > > >>>>Why doesn't kannel has its forums or online discussion boards? > > > >>>> > > > >>>>Don't you think that with them it will be easier to keep > > > >> > > > >>track of the > > > >> > > > >>>>things > > > >>>>and help can be provided in a better way, considering the > > > >> > > > >>features and > > > >> > > > >>>>options present in the modern bulletin board systems > > > >>>> > > > >>>> > > > >>>>Thank You > > > >>>> > > > >>> > > > >>> Probably because no one has set one up yet :) > You offering? > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>>Gareth > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>>-- > > > >>>Gareth Reakes, Managing Director Parthenon Computing > > > >>>+44-1865-811184 http://www.parthcomp.com > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Gareth Reakes, Managing Director Parthenon Computing > > > +44-1865-811184 http://www.parthcomp.com > > > > > > > > > >
