And if you were using a screen reader, and had need to post a question
to the mailing list? Then you'd still need to deal with the web
page/forums.
Your solution is a good step in the right direction, but does not solve
the problems.
I've looked into integrating a forum and mailing list in the past.
Unless something has changed in the past couple of years, there is no
good solution. What is needed is a way to keep a mailing list and forum
in sync. Messages sent to the mailing list are automagically posted in
the forums, with the conversation threads being maintained. Messages
posted to the forums are automagically posted to the mailing list.
The closest I've ever seen for this is the forums where you can elect to
receive an email if a watched topic is posted to. Or if someone replies
to you or a topic that you had previously replied to. While this is
somewhat workable, it still looses all the benefits of an email list -
you still have to go to the web page to view/respond to messages. And
visiting the web page is not part of the "normal" routine for a number
of people.
Karl said it best - we can't please everyone. Unless someone were to
sit down and write a tool to integrate/synch a forum (Zoho in particular
in this case) and the mailing list (Google Groups in this case). I
don't forsee that happening anytime soon.
My thoughts.
Shawn
John Arrowwood wrote:
Silly thought:
What if the forums were 'published' to the mailing list, and the mailing
list were made read-only? That is, every time a post is published on
the forum, it is automatically sent to the mailing list. Then, in the
footer of the message is a link to reply to the post, which when clicked
takes you to the forum in such a way that the user can immediately reply
to that post.
The mailing list could be set up so that nobody except the forum 'bot'
could post to it, which would make spam go away. People that have
accessibility issues or just prefer to get their information via their
email client could continue to read things that way. And you would have
all of the benefits of the forum.
Best of both worlds. Make everybody happy. I know it would make me
happier.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Octavian Rasnita <orasn...@gmail.com
<mailto:orasn...@gmail.com>> wrote:
From: "MorningZ" <morni...@gmail.com <mailto:morni...@gmail.com>>
Besides, as Richard pointed out, the mailing list right here will
still exist, it just won't be moderated/managed by the people it was
before......
That would be good, because at least for a period there would still
be an accessible source of information for JQuery.
Octavian
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