Mailing list -> forum (was: Re: [ODE] list archive broken)

[Mike Reinstein]

I would like to take this opportuunity to add my 2 cents.

Forum software can easily be modified to get the best of both worlds...phpbb 
already has topic reply notification capabilities that will email people 
watching the thread. This could be extended to have the forums send the 
content of the posts in much the same way they are being sent by the mailing 
list. This has several beneficial consequences:

a) it provides a much, much nicer interface for storing answers to these 
issues that come up
b) it provides a way to partition issues by category, and thereby improving 
data retrieval later
c) it saves bandwidth, by partitioning traffic by category (Joe Schmoe may 
not be interested in build related issues, and can set his forum acct up to 
only forward topic replies for posts in the DirectX or OpenGL ODE related 
categories)


One of my my responsibilities at work involves acting as sole maintainer of 
both mail lists and forums. I've found this system to work quite well, in 
that it solved a variety of issues various people have brought up.

Let me know what you folks think :)

Mike






>From: "Simon Barratt" <Barog at pineapple-interactive.com>
>To: <Ode at q12.org>
>Subject: RE: Mailing list -> forum (was: Re: [ODE] list archive 
broken)
>Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 20:27:48 +0100
>
>I'd rather we just have two mailing lists.. One kind of ode-devel and 
one just 'ode'..
>Then development matters / techy discussion can go on and the helpful 
people can help newbies to ODE in the general one.
>
>Though I'm never likely to be as active as Jon I agree that I go to 
forums less than I read each mail coming in the inbox :)
>
>Simon
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ode-bounces at q12.org [mailto:ode-bounces at q12.org] On Behalf Of Jon 
Watte
>Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 7:26 PM
>To: Ode at Q12. Org
>Subject: RE: Mailing list -> forum (was: Re: [ODE] list archive 
broken)
>
>
>A forum, you have to GO TO.
>A mailing list, you get in your inbox.
>I would be (much) less active on a forum.
>
>Cheers,
>
>			/ h+
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ode-bounces at q12.org [mailto:ode-bounces at q12.org]On Behalf Of 
adrianotiger
>Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 7:37 AM
>To: ode at q12.org
>Subject: Re: Mailing list -> forum (was: Re: [ODE] list archive 
broken)
>
>
>Forum is easy to set up....
>Mails can't do more than a forum...
>I made a forum for ODE as example on:
>http://ode.petrucci.ch/
>
>If Russell wan't made one, you can use this... I have enough space 
(100MB) should be enough, and the server is fast :D
>
>Bye, Adriano
>
>PS: The forum was set up in 30minutes, it is only to show that a Forum 
is easy to use and more efficient to search something, because it has 
differents section, and every section is ordered by date (like emails).
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Vrej Melkonian" <vmelkon at yahoo.com>
>To: <ode at q12.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 3:31 PM
>Subject: Re: Mailing list -> forum (was: Re: [ODE] list archive 
broken)
>
>
> > That's true. Why isn't a forum used. phpbb or whatever.
> >
> > --- Amund Børsand <amund at offroad.no> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I have mentioned this before, but I'd like to cast my vote 
again. I
> > > think a forum would be much better, it could be split in 
let's say a
> > > newbie section, a "normal" section and a ODE 
internals section. I am
> > > quite frustrated with this mailing list, going on and off it,
> > > because I am tired of getting so much mail where only 1% is
> > > interesting, also my questions seem to disappear quickly and 
remain
> > > unanswered. In a forum they might stay visible for someone to 
cast
> > > their love upon it? :)
> > >
> > > - Amund
> > >
> > >
> > > "Adriano Petrucci" <adrianotiger at hotmail.com>
> > > skreiv:
> > >
> > > > What's about a Forum?
> > > > Messages are saved and you can easly find them,
> > > there are also much more
> > > > options than mailing-lists...
> > > >
> > > > I can open one on my server, if it is not possible
> > > on the ODE server :)
> > > >
> > > > Bye, Adriano
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "John Miles" <jmiles at pop.net>
> > > > To: <ode at q12.org>
> > > > Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 5:45 PM
> > > > Subject: RE: [ODE] list archive broken
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > It has never worked, as far as I'm aware.  I've
> > > reported it a couple of
> > > > > times.
> > > > >
> > > > > -- jm
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi there I just subscribed to the list and I
> > > wanted to download
> > > > > > the full archive
> > > > > > but the link on the page
> > > > > > (http://q12.org/pipermail/ode.mbox/ode.mbox)
> > > gives a
> > > > > > 500 internal server error
> > > > > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > > ODE mailing list
> > > > > > ODE at q12.org
> > > > > > http://q12.org/mailman/listinfo/ode
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > ODE mailing list
> > > > > ODE at q12.org
> > > > > http://q12.org/mailman/listinfo/ode
> > > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > ODE mailing list
> > > > ODE at q12.org
> > > > http://q12.org/mailman/listinfo/ode
> > >
> > > --
> > > Amund Børsand <amund £ offroad . no>
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > ODE mailing list
> > > ODE at q12.org
> > > http://q12.org/mailman/listinfo/ode
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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