Even with infinite resources, IMO an archived / searchable mail list is far 
superior to a forum.
I sign up for 5 or 6 projects’ mailing lists and passively watch traffic to 
learn more about
the projects.  With a forum, I would have to bounce around every day to keep on 
top of what’s going on.

On Jul 22, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Martin Gainty <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 99% of the servers we use are donated by Universities so if the Univ admins 
> dont support we dont either
> 
> Everyone who appears on the list to answer questions and/or propose 
> modifications
> is doing so on a pro-bono basis.. on their own time ...using their own 
> equipment
> 
> we do not have either the Equipment and/or vast Financial Resources that 
> corporate America enjoys
> 
> Martin-
> 
>> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:54:54 -0500
>> Subject: Re: Why not a forum
>> From: [email protected]
>> To: [email protected]
>> 
>> I think because Apache is a non-profit is cost should be minimal --
>> including cost of time by system administrators. If you want to search and
>> filter, you have Google and other search engines.
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Paul
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Preston, Dale <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I was just wondering why this group uses an email list rather than a
>>> forum.  It seems forum software is more searchable and filterable than
>>> email lists.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Dale
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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