[OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

[Nikola M]

On 01/26/15 04:25 PM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> Well, ideologically these were not separated - tyere was a bridge to post emails onto forums and forum posts into mailing lists, so threads could be discussed in both.
Sonds like that was on the right track. Thanks for clarifying.
> The implementation sucked however and more often failed than worked. But the intent was to provide both venues, and I should confess I came into many software-discussion communities via their web-forums, blog comments, etc.
> Posting error traces (esp. from Live envs) is often more convenient via a browser than fetching and setting up a mail-client, too. Notifications of replies into email (at least) were a great bonus, since I don't want to keep hundreds of tabs open with all forums and threads of interest to me ;)
That is also great observation and benefit, if implemented right.
I usually see mail client as superior way of using mailing lists instead 
of forums for threaded view, notification and ability to have archived 
discussions I can search locally. But clearly there are benefits of 
using Web view.
> On a bonus side, when there is some interesting discussion of a problem I do too have, and somebody touched it a month or a year ago, subscribing to a list anew won't help me respond to that old thread with its context and my new questions on the matter. However replying to a forum post is open to anybody including newbies anytime, and it is a benefit IMHO.
Upon subscribing to mailing list, that is new to me, I usually download 
mailing list archives from the beginning of the list life (usually 
unpack from .gz files), concatenate them in one archive and after 
subscribing and mail filters set, I close Thunderbird and copy file in 
place of folder file that Thunderbird uses.
And voila - after starting Thunderbird, I have full list archive :)
There surely could be better way of making available up-to-date full 
list archive for easier use, and Web interface is sometimes more 
convenient, but just to say that, one can respond to old threads too, 
using mail client, if have list archive locally.
> So from me - +1 to a solution that would well integrate forums and email, both-ways and reliably.
That would be great,
with of course mentioning that posting from web interface to the list, 
would need at least one to many maintainers, of course if solution works 
well (same user accounts etc.) .