[mb-users] A ML... and a forum!?

[MLL]

azertus a écrit :
> There's a lot to reply to, so I will just write one mail.
> 
> I can agree that the scope of [mb-users] is perfect for the forum
> format. However, I cannot see myself participating in a style
> discussion on a forum, what with the colourful avatars, bulky
> signatures, "me too"-comments, etc. 

I just saw in the user options you can disable them all.

> 
> The way I saw these forums was an experiment as to which kind of
> discussions would pop up there. Having several detailed categories and
> no unified login defeated its purpose. Only motivated list-users
> created accounts there, so in the end the same kind of discussions
> were had, but only by *a certain subset* of the list-users.

Honestly, suscribing on the forums *once* is *way* easier than 
subscribing to each & every mailing-list. I for one did succeed in 
subscribing to the automods ML, but my mails were always rejected for 
some reason. Even if the unified login isn't here yet, it's really a 
short pain.

> 
> Thomas Tholén said:
>> Why people wanted forums was so they wouldn't have to check mailing 
>> lists. Now they still do.
> 
> To this purpose a topic for each relevant surviving list (all but
> users IMO) could be added to the forum, as Andrew Conkling said:
> 
>> Similarly, the Ubuntu forums have a good setup (though I don't know
>> how they implemented it); they have the mailing list as a topic in the
>> forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=6. This would seem
>> to satisfy both sides.

I didn't get Andrew's idea exactly, but if it's close to mine in another 
post, the option "Include post in subscription e-mails." is a starter 
towards the right direction.

MLL