[ODE] Re-inventing the wheel

Roel van Dijk roelvandijk at home.nl
Wed May 21 02:09:02 2003


I agree. You could even combine a forum with a mailinglist. So that you can 
receive a mail when something is posted on a particular forum.
You could use a forum engine like phpBB (http://www.phpbb.com).

Roel van Dijk

> >  - Different forums: newbies, algorithms, advanced,
> > error reporting, general discussion etc. - I was
> > against it about a year ago, but since then the user
> > base got bigger and nowadays we have 400(!) message in
> > a good month...
>
> I definitely agree with this. I can't tell you how much of a pain it has
> been to try to find the information I need on problems past using the
> mailing list. Threads split across different months, threads mis-indexed,
> threads with missing posts because someone sent an e-mail directly to
> another person instead of the list. Using a forum would fix this and make
> it a lot easier to search for answers to your questions...
>
>
> Nathan Ostgard