What about having a gmane interface as part of the archives. I believe you can post without having an account already set up. Gmane also has RSS available for any mailing list. http://www.gmane.org <quote> In addition, Gmane does spam detection, cross-post handling, has a TMDA-fueled encryption/forwarding service, a web interface, respects X-No-Archive, supplies RSS feeds, uses SPF, features user-defined filters, and has a real-time indexing search engine. </quote> Jeff Rasmussen On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:11:54 -0600, Jim Crumley <crumley at belka.space.umn.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:37:01AM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote: > > So, mailing list suck? > > Yes, mailing list suck. But web forums are *much* worse. > > > I really prefer them, but many of the foss projects I contribute to are moving > > to web forums. Forum + RSS is just like a mailing list (imho). > > Except, then your forced to deal with an RSS client. You add > complexity for no benefit. > > > Recently my main project has moved to forums, to keep threads intact so that > > it is possible to see the whole conversation over time. > > What's wrong with list archives for this purpose? The > layout of web interface to some archives may not be as nice as > some forums, but in that case I think the focus should be on > improving the archive. Don't throw the baby out with the > bathwater! > > > So, what do you think, move to forums? This also relates to the whole SIG > > thread awhile back, forums would lend themselves to SIGs. > > Please don't. > > > Maybe both? Some sort of web forum that can gate to mailing lists? > > How about an archive that allowed posting? I can see problems > with that, but it appeals to me much more than the reverse > because as is probably clear by now, I don't like web forums. ;) > > > Just throwing out ideas. > > Just bouncing 'em back. > > -- > Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) > Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ > Never laugh at live dragons | > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Jeff Rasmussen GPG public key 0x9686C12F