> On Monday 24 March 2008 16:21:06 pm Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Monday 24 March 2008 03:48:31 pm vitamin wrote: >> Some people on mailing list (most notably Paul Johnson)don't get that forum >> works different. Please block their replies or remove them completely from >> the ML and forum. > > Perhaps it's best to fix the problem instead of suggesting the users are > wrong. A lot of the complaints with the forum to list gateway would go away > if the forums required quoting, and the gateway itself provided an accurate > References header. > > It's not impossible to get this right: Non-usenet Google Groups are great > exmaples of forums working with mailing lists harmoniously. Why the > prevailing opinion here is to ban or run off anybody who suggests that fixing > a pervasive bug is the right thing to do only serves to harm the project. > We use mail2forum (www.mail2forum.com) and phpbb2, and patches and/or advice are welcome. The mail2forum guys are openly asking for additional developers, and I think we've deployed from source, so patches or configuration advice would be helpful. For phpbb, I know that Jeremy would be more reluctant to take patches, as he's using Debian packages, but perhaps he's overlooked a setting; again, advice is appreciated. Cheers, Jeremy
