[ubuntu-uk] Online Discussion Forum - To be or not to be?

[John K Masters]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 19:26:54 +0100
Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 05:37:04PM +0100, "tedsmith28 at yahoo.co.uk"
> wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I realise it was spoken about some week ago, but I really do feel
> > that perhaps we should re-visit the possibility of an online
> > discussion forum.
> 
> For what purpose? Having a mailing list *and* a forum almost always
> leads to a split in a community. You generally find people who prefer
> mailing lists stay on the list, people who prefer forums stay there.
> This leads to fragmented and duplicated discussions.
> 
<BigSnip>

I have seen this debate on other mailing lists and can sympathise with
both sides. I believe the problem lies with certain mail clients that
do not support threads, which makes it very hard to follow specific
topics. Many webmail clients are like this.

Myself, I have an ongoing problem with my host losing emails and making
it almost impossible to transfer my domain.

Possibly a prog to view posts in either form?

John