On Mon, November 7, 2005 6:34 am, Finner, Doug wrote: > Wow, go away for a few days and holy war breaks out...cool! > > Why not one system that supports both without extra work? The model > I'm > thinking of is Google or Yahoo groups(*). You can access any 'forum' > via a web browser, search, post, reply, etc AND/OR you can subscribe > to > any forum and get messages sent to you via email (individual or digest > format). > > At work, I sit behind a firewall and web access involves a multi-stop > PITA process so listerservers work well for me there. At home, forum > access is easier since I can go to the forum site, decide what I want > to > read and/or respond to without cluttering up my email client. > > Doug > > (*) - I am NOT suggesting this forum be configured like Yahoo, the > search function absolutely sucks and I'm not a real fan of the layout, > but the concept of a forum that's a list that's a forum...is what I > like. For what it's worth, Yahoo has not PHP groups I can find but > there are 33 over at Google with 100 - 1000 members. YahooGroups hosts at least 2 (regional) PHP mailing lists that I know of. Both happen to be Chicago-based. (as am I) One gets virtually no traffic. The other has migrated to SourceForge for all intents and purposes, but the YahooGroups list remains as a doorway out of darkness for those who stumble into it. So not only does searching for a message within a YahooGroup suck (and it really really really sucks) but apparently searching for a Group also sucks. :-) PS I really don't understand how a filter and a separate folder can "clutter" up an email client... Surely your email client HAS filters/folders... -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
