Simon Jakesch ([email protected]) wrote:
> On the forum front: Mike is correct, there is a large populous
> preferring forums over mailing lists.

But why?  That's what I don't understand.  There are countless highly
successful public projects (the Linux kernel, git, and OpenStack to
name just three) which operate perfectly well using mailing lists.

> That's why there's products
> that actually allow both methods of interaction. Send an new topic
> email to the list and it becomes a new thread on the forum, reply
> via the forum and it gets send back to the list. Jive actually does
> this very well.

I haven't seen Jive, but all the ones I've seen screw up the
formatting and add header/footer bloat when passing the message
through the gateway.  If Jive allows and preserves plain text
communication then I'd be interested to try it.

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