Maybe it's already been mentioned, but has anyone looked at the way Google Groups works: it combines the likes of a forum and mailing list, letting people interact via either front end based on their preference as they prefer. You can interact with a Google Group as a traditional mailing list (similar to this) or you can use their web interface to browse it as a forum. And since it's Google, the search features work pretty well.
https://groups.google.com Although that would require moving to new mailing lists atop Google, etc... Just thought I would toss it out there. We use Google Groups for most of our internal organization (e.g. https://wiki.wmfo.org/Staff_Info/Staff_Newsgroups), and it provides a nice balance between traditional mailing lists, good archives w/ search, and a forum front-end for anyone who prefers that. Cheers, Andy Sayler WMFO Medford On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Sherrod Munday <smun...@ieee.org> wrote: > Cowboy's right -- real names may not be "realizable" these days. > There are lots of lurkers out there who don't use real names on the > 'Net for whatever reason. > > Besides, how would you (or anyone) figure out or "validate" if > someone's name on the forum is "real" -- especially if you don't > recognize a foreign name? (I.e., is mine a fake name, or foreign? > And would it be foreign from *whose* perspective? And does a foreigner > really deserve ostracism or special treatment, anyway, just because > their name may not look familiar? I think not, given the global > community of users that Rivendell shares already.) > > Methinks it might be better to worry more about whether another forum > is really needed. It would most likely fragment the population > instead of cohering it. > > Just because a few people prefer a different method, style, or > dissemination of communication doesn't mean that it will be better for > everyone. As a famous president of the United States (it was some guy > named Abe - oh, wait, that's a nickname - we'd have to ban him from > the new forum ;-) said once, "You can please some of the people some > of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people > all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the > time." > > Sometimes you just have to accept that what others have done already > just may be adequate (yet not perfect) - it's not like the world needs > yet another mousetrap. There are plenty of dead mice already around > this world from the imperfect and penultimate works of others... > > I'll get back down from the soapbox now. > > --Sherrod (Is that a real name, anyway? And is that a girl's or a > boy's name? Does it really matter? ;-) > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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