The question was: "Does anyone know of a good secure Forum engine that runs well on OBSD." A debate of its merits vs a mailing list is a tad off topic and has nothing to do with OBSD.
Thanks. On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:02 -0400, "Sean Howard" <sil...@callysto.com> wrote: > I think you're being pretentious a little bit. > > A good usenet implementation is *closer* to a forum, which is what you > want. But forums are a different (more dynamic) use case. With smaller > entry barriers to large amounts of content. > > --Sean > > Somebody claiming to be Samuel Baldwin wrote: > > 2009/10/11 Mic J <michael.cogn...@gmail.com>: > > > Why is that better? > > > > Because you get to pick your UI, because all your mail as amalgamated > > into one mailbox where you can sort it yourself where there's no easy > > place for garbage "off-topic" discussion, because your mailbox is > > where messages can be threaded properly, because there are no avatars > > or forum stats or ranks or administrators or moderators to create > > politics, because they're low overhead and easy accessible, because > > low-traffic mailing lists still catch everyone's attention where a > > low-traffic forum will eventually be ignored by the users... so on and > > so forth. There's bound to be a bunch of sites or archived > > rants/debates about this. > > > > If it helps, compare your average forum goer with your average mailing > > list denizen. That alone should be enough... > > > > -- > > Samuel Baldwin - logik.li
