May I suggest using gateway software. Where the forum has the threads, and any post to the thread goes out to the mail list, and the mail list traffic automatically goes to the forum. I personally hate forums. I want my info delivered to me. My wife prefers forums. She doesn't like managing all the email.
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Druppy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't really care to debate to be honest, the method of delivery > isn't important to me. But there was a thread a while back asking what we > could do to get more new people involved, and I am proposing that not using > a mailing list and using a web forum would be a good place to start. I bet > a lot of people don't subscribe / immediately unsubscribe when they see the > volume of emails on this list. > > I would propose that having a forum system would allow for more > new-user interaction / easier introductions / etc. There are lots of > different forum solutions, many of which allow user definable layouts / > fonts / colors / etc. And in today's world it's a much more accepted method > of mass communication. And most of them do have the "email me this thread > as it updates" so you can just subscribe to the ones you really care about. > > Email lists are so very 1990 ;) > > > On May 6, 2008, at 11:15 AM, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > > > On May 6, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Druppy wrote: > > > > > This is one of the reason I support moving the email lists on to web > > > forums. Has this been discussed at all? It makes joining as a newbie > > > much > > > less intimidating, clears up the email clutter, and makes it much easier > > > to > > > track threads. But maybe that has already been discussed? > > > > > > > > > I cant' recall where I've seen it before, but there was at least one > > implementation of a combination mailing list/forum where posts to either > > would go to both. > > > > THAT I would go for. > > > > Personally, I find mailing lists better for the way I work, because the > > messages come to me. Forums, unless I'm very interested in a specific issue, > > get ignored, because I have to go to them. > > > > This specific issue, though, is not a problem that would have been > > solved by forums, as Gus's information on disabling overcommit in Linux was > > simply another post in a long winding thread about Xen that I had long since > > stopped caring to check. On a forum, I'd simply skip over that thread > > entirely, because, hey, it's about Xen, right? > > > > Starting a new (appropriately titled) thread got my attention, and Gus > > very helpfully provided a link to his previous message. > > > > Honestly, I don't see how doing this on a web forum would have been any > > better/different, other than Gus providing a link to a forum post rather > > than a mail archive. > > > > I'm open to debate on the issue, though. > > > > Gregory > > > > -- > > Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > OpenPGP Key ID: EAF4844B keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu > > > > > > > > -- > > [email protected] > > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > > > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
