Web forums vs mailing list (was Re: minor list changes)

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On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, John Foust wrote:

> But it would also be cool to have machine- and topic- specific forums.

This I agree with whole-heartedly, but it would rely on the discipline of
the posters (and as we should know from experience, this is no good ;)

> >Find a web forum that acts like a mailing list and I'll buy in ;)
>
> http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/ seems to be down
> temporarily, and does it only update every 24 hours?
>
> Has no one invented a web forum / mailing list hybrid, where web
> postings are echoed to the mailing list, and vice versa, and it
> updates in real-time or something close to it?  If some large
> percentage of subscribers switched to this web version, it would
> certainly lessen the load on the SMTP-based list.

I have been considering just such a system for years now: a web interface
to the CC list where folks could view messages from a browser and post
messages to the list from the web version (with a tag added to identify
where the messages were posted from).  One of these days I'll get around
to it.

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