[Playlist] community software for supporting users (was Re: "Using the XSPF")

[rbu]

Hi Bjorn,
hi list,

Bjorn Wijers wrote:
>> People who have a hard time just setting up a Flash player are probably
>> not going to be able to manage a mailing list.  These users would be
>> better served by a web forum.
> I think this might be a little bit to presumptious. Although it wouldn't 
> hurt to have both (mailinglist and webforum) with a gateway between 
> them. One can use whichever fits best.

I do not know about what the current status is on setting up a bulltetin
board. I believe both from an administrative standpoint as considering
usability, the "mailing list with gateway" is the best idea.

Seeing that there actually are a couple of forum like web interfaces for
mailing lists that are very easy to handle:
* Nabble[1], which this list is already subscribed to (and which I am
test-using right now)
* Gmane[2], which besides two web views to a list also provides a news
(usenet) and rss interface and which I think this list should also be using
(see [3]).

My point is this:
Create a mailing list, subscribe it to as many web interfaces as you like.
Then every user can have his or her own taste of reading and posting (mail,
web, news). And all you have to do on your own is hosting the list and
creating accounts at nabble and gmane.

Bye,

Robert

PS: Sorry if this might be HTML, blame nabble on that :-)

[1] http://www.nabble.com/MusicBrainz---Playlist-f10925.html
[2] http://www.gmane.org/
[3] http://gmane.org/subscribe.php
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