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Re: Debian User List



On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 23:45 +0200, Mitja Podreka wrote:
> The problem with forums is that you have to deal with them using a 
> browser. All the work on sorting and following the debates is on you. 
> But with mailing list you use a mail agent like Icedove for example, 
> which does all the sorting of threads, which you can mark, put in 
> folders, mark as rubbish,...

That problem can be solved by setting up some sort of gateway between
the forum and a mailing list.

For phpbb (what forums.debian.net uses) there's Mail2Forum[0], but I
have no idea how well it works in practise or if there's any interest to
try it out.

0. http://www.mail2forum.com/forums/index.php

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