Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Tim Verhoeven wrote:
As far as I can see requirements for the forum, it looks ok. Only the email gateway to a mailinglist is not really there, but there is a nice forum to RSS gateway which the none-forum lovers may a usable alternative.
After doing lots of thinking on that topic, I don't even think that gating forum and mailing lists is such a good idea anymore, as you really are catering to two completely different mindsets of people.
But the differences are in how/when they access, not so much the content of the questions or answers. These guys seem to do a pretty good job at running forums with gateways to existing mailling lists with threads mostly staying together: http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/. I'm on the backuppc mail list and don't see any difference if someone posts on the forum instead.