another thing is it's much more easier to reply a post from 2 or 3 years old on a forum than on a mailing list... - these situations happened also with me somehow regularly...
----------------------------- On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Paulo Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm one example of this - since long time mailing list exists (and i > were using internet regularly for more than 10 years), and only now > with gmail i'm getting enough 'courage' to subscribe into mailing > lists - all the time i were (and will be for sure) much more addict of > 'forae' (i'm not that good in latin language; is 'forae' the plural of > 'forum'? ;-) ) > > as well, i think also is lots easier to point an url of a forum post > than locating an url of an archived post of mailing list... and > getting posters connecting each others by this way... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Nathan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:51 AM, James Paige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> The blog-like interface does allow posting. The newsgroup-thread >>> interface does not. >> >> I like the idea of switching from a mailing list to phpBB. There are >> many great features of bulletin boards: >> * user icons >> * getting email notifications for some threads and not others >> * sticky topics and announcements >> * easy to moderate if necessary >> * syntax highlighting for code snippets >> * uniform interface for html links in messages >> * ability to upload screenshots and include in messages >> >> Apart from the features, I think nowadays people are more comfortable >> joining a forum than subscribing to a mailing list. >> -- >> Nathan Whitehead >> >