Gregory S. Combs wrote:
I absolutely love DSPAM. It is truly an awesome project. However,
it's clear that due to the vast amount of configurations and
distributions out there, it's no simple task to set up unless you've
got a dead-on basic setup. Once you start throwing in other
transports and such, things get complicated.
Hence, this user group. It's quite handy when you need assistance.
But it doesn't lend so easily to searching archives. Also, I'd like
to be able to take a break from it for a few weeks without having to
unsubscribe.
I'd like to see this message list moved to a web based forum.
Searching, threaded, better suited for longer detailed discussions
than my mailbox. And we could have a whole section discussing custom
setups and more esoteric configurations.
Given the amount of traffic the email list sees, I could probably host
the forum myself, however there may be someone out there already
better suited to implement this.
Is there interest in moving this out of email and onto the web? What
are the chances this could be an "authorized" forum for DSPAM discussions?
Greg
I like having a web forum to search through, rather than having a bunch
of mail come in to my inbox that doesn't pertain to me.
With a web forum, you can reply to topics you feel are important, new
users have tons of info on tap, and members of the forum need only watch
the Topics they want.
Also, web forums are easier to access, put a link on the dspam website
and you're a click away. The ML is a bit more difficult to get into. I
hang out in the DSpam IRC Channel a lot, and it would be much easier to
refer people to a Forum than the ML because you can paste a URL to a
specific Post.
Web forums can also be organized better. For example: there can be
Postifx, MySQL, LDAP, QMail, etc... topics. A user can go to a specific
Topic rather than searching through tons of email on the Mailing List in
hopes of finding what they need.
A great example are the forums for Smoothwall.
http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/
I also don't see any reason why there can't be both a Mailing List and a
Web Forum.
+1
LedHed
