2009/4/2 Paul A. Rubin <ru...@msu.edu>
> Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>
>> More to the point, with a forum you have to go to it and pull then
>> information to your machine; with a mail list, the information is pushed
>> to
>> your machine and all you need do is handle it as you wish.
>>
>>
> Not necessarily. I'm subscribed to a few forums via RSS. Posts are pushed
> to my mail client (Thunderbird). If I want to reply, though, I have to go
> the forum in a web browser (typically by clicking a link in the RSS message)
> and, if it doesn't remember me, log in. So posting is not as easy as with a
> mailing list (I get most of my mailing lists as news feeds), but (repeating
> myself) I can usually skim the content of an entire thread on one web page
> in a forum, which is much easier than with news feeds. (I handle this list,
> for example, essentially by skipping all lengthy threads unless the subject
> line is *really* compelling.)
>
> I wonder if anyone has software that can integrate a forum with an existing
> mail list (or news feed)?
>
> /Paul
>
> Google Groups displays news groups in flat long threads, rolling already
reader messages like GMAIL do. But Google Groups do not have other news
server that these in USENET and own Google's groups. You can create your own
as far as I remember, but I did not find functionality to take from GMANE
for example.
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