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Hello Kero/Jeff et al,<BR>
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A NZ-grown opensource project that addresses the mailing list VS forum problem might help here - <A HREF="http://onlinegroups.net/">http://onlinegroups.net/</A><BR>
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It functions a lot like Yahoo Groups and gives people the *option* of choosing their desired interface, i.e. mail client or web forum.<BR>
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Just my 2c.<BR>
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Kind regards,<BR>
Tim<BR>
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On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 08:19 +0200, Kero van Gelder wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Is that searchable? Is it threaded? Will there be someone on 24/7 that is</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> knowledgable and helpful?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I understand that some people love IRC and mailing lists. But users expect</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> to search and ask questions in a forum, not on a mailing list and IRC. I</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> think it's about time for some forums.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Funny, I expect to ask questions at IRC and search archives.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and I expect messages to be archived indefinitely, as a mailing list does</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">(I've seen many forums that don't, unless you mark "sticky"...)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Besides, the usabilty of those forums is very clunky compared to a decent</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">email client. And if you want a webpage for these things? Use gmail.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Now, if you like the subforums feature of forums, perhaps the conclusion</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">would be that we need more mailing lists. Atm, I doubt that. What would</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">be bad is to start a forum with the same scope next to an existing mailing</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">list, so we would have two places to search for the same thing.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Bye,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Kero.</FONT>
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