[CentOS] Forum utility, facility?

William L. Maltby BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com
Fri Aug 25 18:18:50 UTC 2006


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.

> 
> > <snip>
> 
> > - K
> <snip sig stuff>

-- 
Bill
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