On 7/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller</b> <<a href="mailto:hns@computer.org">hns@computer.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> i imagine this mail2forum provides some sort of "[Subforum]"-tag<br>> before each e-mail. To answer to a thread, simply answer the last<br>> mail of that thread. To start a new topic, just write "[Subforum]
<br>> New Topic Name" as Subject of the mail. At least i would implement<br>> it this way. And if it isn't so, we could simply write ourselves<br>> something like that. I mean: we have plenty of developers in here.
<br><br>How do you make sure that the [Subforum] really exists when users<br>type a message? How do they remember the list of tags? Does the<br>sender get back a notice and has to send it again?</blockquote><div><br>Again, i just assume this things, since I never used it, it's just how i would implement it.
<br>You should know the subforums, or if you don't, then you could just request it with a e-mail.<br>The sender would get a confirmetion if it was posted, which he has to answer to autenticate itself.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> This not only allow to have mailing list AND forum, but also to let<br>> everybody choose how they want to interact.<br><br>Well, they can choose anyway even if both systems are not connected.</blockquote><div><br>
But if they are connected, you don't loose anything with the decision <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">My latest conclusions:
<br>* the democratic approach would be to vote for either of both<br>(inducing a lot of political discussions where people try to convince<br>each other).</blockquote><div>But where vote? Because this should be a solution for end-users, and we haven't any at our disposal.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">* the (darwinistic) market oriented approach is to simply offer both<br>- more or less connected and useage patterns will decide
</blockquote><div><br>if they are connected, then there isn't anything to be decidet. <br></div><br></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>My corner of the web: <a href="http://ramsesoriginal.wordpress.com">http://ramsesoriginal.wordpress.com
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