Joseph Garvin wrote: > 1. They can bookmark forum posts. > > 2. Webmail interfaces are very popular but often suck at threading > mailing lists. Good points. > 3. phpbb has become so widespread that signing up for a forum is > something that they know how to do and are familiar with. > > 4. phpbb is so widespread that it's a familiar interface. Bull, if you ask me. Nobody will care whether it's phpBB or something that provides the exact same features and solutions. If anything, I think it's easy to point out a better direction than what phpBB does. You could start by stripping away the ugly theme, going minimalistic with icons and colors. And make it less clique-ish-prone. > 5. Subscribing to a mailing lists requires setting up filters so that > you're main inbox isn't flooded with posts. > > 6. A forum has a throttleable amount of involvement. I don't want to > have to subscribe to a mailing list to just ask one question and then > probably never participate again, and then have to go through the whole > sign up process again on the off chance that I do have another question. > > 7. Nobody whines when you attach large images or files. Good points. I like #7, haven't heard that one before :-). > 8. It is easily searchable, and unlike the giant "wine-users" or > "wine-devel" lists, you can narrow your search to specific subforums. > > 9. Posts that aren't active get filtered down to the bottom. Browsing > the web interface to the mailing list just gives me a giant topic dump > for the last month. > > 10. Sticky posts can alert users to the presence of the FAQ and answers > to popular problems (like, click here for the WoW patch). Fine points.. > I wouldn't worry about communication between the lists and the > forums at all. I'm personally not convinced. I don't like sending people to more different places than we already are for no apparent good reason... > Doing all the work to improve the mailing list web interface seems like > a bad idea when you can just spare yourself all the work and use > something like phpbb. Why reinvent the wheel? phpBB is a wheel.. What I proposed is more of an anti-gravity device :-). I agree that it might be overkill to make our own software if Google Groups can provide most of what people are looking for. (I'm not sure that it can, though.) _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
