Shane Gibson (shane_gib...@symantec.com) wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > Subject: Re: [Crowbar] New Server for Crowbar Lists > > > > > > In my experience, users often prefer a forum style interface over a > > > > mailing list. If we investigate alternatives, I think we should > > > > consider a forum as an option. > > > > > > > > Anyone else think forum might be preferable ? > > > > > > <rant mode='opinionated'> > > > > > > Sorry, but I can't stand forums. I don't think I've ever witnessed a > > > forum which managed the same signal:noise ratio as a decent mailing > > > list. > > I'm curious why we believe it has to be one or the other? I've used > "forums" that were set up to allow inbound/outbound email for the > forum. Members can choose the web based forum interface, or to > interact via email only. Many allow interaction/consumption via > RSS/Atom feeds, etc... > > For example, Google Groups allow you to do this, along with the > ability to use the web interface to do searches of the groups > postings for new users to review historical posting, etc... I'm > sure there are lots of other forum/group/list solutions with similar > features.
Google Groups encourages rich text communication, and all the gateways I've seen mess with formatting: http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/crowbar/2013-October/003915.html http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/crowbar/2013-October/003917.html but if there's a forum which provides a loss-less bi-directional e-mail gateway and defaults to plain text then I'd be in favour, even though I didn't hear a single concrete reason why anyone would prefer forums. (I'm not disputing that some people *do* prefer them, just wondering *why*.) _______________________________________________ Crowbar mailing list Crowbar@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar For more information: http://crowbar.github.com/
