Ralph Angenendt wrote: > >> 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. > > Hmmmm. > > How high is the traffic in the mailing lists? How high is the traffic on > the forums? I don't have any idea since it isn't obvious where anything originates. I'd guess most of the posting happens on the lists (at least on backuppc where it is mostly people who were on the list before the forum gateway existed) but there might be a lot of people who read/search the forums and some new user questions might come from there. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com