Re: Drupal setup

Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> Michael Vincent van Rantwijk, MultiZilla wrote:
>> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
>>> Michael Vincent van Rantwijk, MultiZilla wrote:
>>>
>>>> A forum can be cool, but it needs moderators.  Any takers?
>>>
>>> out of curiosity, whats wrong with the newsgroups.  I for one prefer 
>>> newsgroups than web forums.
>>
>> A forum is a bit more end-user friendly. No newsreader is required as 
>> any browser will do.  We might even attract new users with it, because 
>> they might be the onces who prefer forums, just like you prefer the 
>> newsgroup.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I think that newsgroup is much better. Setting up a web gateway to
> the newgroups would be much better.
> 
> In fact, if you look at the http://gmane.org/ you can have the newsgroup 
> presented in two different ways on the web:
> 
> - as a blog entry
> - as a webforum entry (with frames or without).
> 
> There is nothing wrong with "blogging" to the newsgroup with some ideas 
> to discuss.
> 
> --Marcin

 From that page: "Gmane is a mailing list archive.".

We already have a mailing list archive, taken from this newsgroup over 
at: http://mozdev.org/pipermail/multizilla/2008-September/thread.html


Blog comments seem to have become common good for discussions.  We 
could, for example, add a link to a post in a forum, where further 
discussions can take place - just in case things go out of control (like 
with so many blog comments).