Has anyone seen <a href="http://Pibb.com">Pibb.com</a>? It's a cross between realtime chat, forums, and to an extent mailing lists. It's very simple to create a group, and what's more, it uses OpenID... <div>On 8/3/07, alan c <<a href="mailto:aeclist@candt.waitrose.com">aeclist@candt.waitrose.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Pete Stean wrote: > On the document sharing issue, you have considered using a shared web-space > to do this? Google offer a solution I think... and it's so 21st century  :) > > I have to say, on the note re mailing lists - I *hate* them - they have such > limited functionality it's embarassing. I'm only on this mailing list > because it's the chosen method of the ubuntu-uk community, if I had a choice > we'd be a facebook group, or have an online forum. For one thing, threads > can be incredibly difficult to follow on a serial email list like this > one... I use Thunderbird and set to see threaded views. It is remarkably easy to see the context, even without reading any actual mails! I very much appreciate using email lists, and only ever use online displays if there is no choice, and I have to be desperate then anyway, or it does not get looked at. I am on just a lot of lists and groups, and on line (web based) approach would be severely limiting. With lists  - using the threaded context - it is very easy to see what is happening, and where my attention needs to go - in the several short attention spans that I use that is. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk </a> <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div>