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Re: Forum

Original poster: "Sean Taylor" <sstaylor@xxxxxxxx>

Implementing a forum wouldn't be too hard, the bandwidth requirements
would probably be a bit greater, but I like a forum a bit better in some
respects, a mailing list in others.  IF we were to do a web forum based
system, there is also RSS for those that would rather have a mail-based
type of system, or we could have a newsgroup.  I just like the
hierarchical/continuous view.  Typically, I only keep the posts that I
find relevant or have interesting information.  Sometimes it gets hard to
follow a thread if the context isn't right in front of me!

Sean Taylor
Urbana, IL

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:18:34 -0500, Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Original poster: "Chris Rutherford" <chris1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I have experience with Vbuliten and phpBB (php-Linux-sql).  Mailing
lists are superior to bulletin boards because you get the benefit of a
email client to do spell checking among other things.  Also, the
moderator would still have to 'vet' each message before it's published
so you loose the benefit of a instant web based system.  Also, there is
something else that you get from a mailing list that you don't get from
a web forum, except I can't quite put my finger on why mailing lists are
better.

I could write some kind of script to search all the pupman archives any
maybe import the emails to a sql server, but again there is no real
benefit in doing this as google does a pretty good job at referencing
the pupman list already.

Thanks

Chris