On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 14:00 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 18:39 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Dag Wieers wrote:
If we could merge mailinglists and forums (by presenting the mailinglist in a forum-like view) and use the forum comment interface to send mails to a mailinglist, then both groups would be merged instead of seperated.
Thats one of issues high on the list for www.centos.org-2.0
Great! My previous experience had that setup. I think it was quite good. The only downside, IIRC, was the negatives from either place (e.g. flames on list, flames in forum) appeared both places.
Oops! Sorry to reply to myself (virtuality now mimics reality!).
Anyway, there was one other really big negative. Users who hi-jacked a thread or had MUAs that didn't do threads well messed up the whole shebang for those who do not tolerate such aberrations very well.
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