I'm kind of neutral on the issue, but it's worth noting that a forums are also fairly prone to getting blocked by modern content proxies, which are much more sophisticated at detecting and blacklisting any form of online communications.
I just register a gmail address in addition to my corporate address. Corporate is what I use for communication, the gmail is for searching, online archival, and POP retrieval if necessary. Gmail is much better suited for this purpose than Nabble and other mediocre mail aggregators, IMO. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Newport [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 5:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Plea for a forum Looking through the mail archive, there was a thread asking for a forum instead of a mailing list. I've started looking at IVY recently and have had to subscribe at work with my work email address, and at home with my home one, which is somewhat frustrating. Mailing lists may have been OK years ago, but I seriously believe you are shooting yourselves in the foot by having a mailing list instead of forum. Look at the forum used by the Spring Project, or the JBoss crew, highly active, loads of users and traffic, easy to search, can log in whether at home or at work. Also some people's work IT managers like to monitor email traffic (don't you love 'em) and frown upon constant emails coming in from a mailing list. ----------------------------------------- ==================================================== This message contains PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL information that is intended only for use by the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient, any disclosure, dissemination, or action based on the contents of this message is prohibited. In such case please notify us and destroy and delete all copies of this transmission. Thank you. ====================================================
