Re: Phorum help for contribs.org

> I always felt that the Mitel phorum + mail system was much cleaner.
> Messages on a mailing list tend to become unreadable beause of the
> numerous levels of quotes. 

This is only the case when people don't quote properly.


>This message is a prime example of what I
> mean :-) 

Indeed.  The previous message clearly displayed improper quoting.  What 
is exceedingly annoying is when folks place a two sentence response at 
the bottom of a three page post.  Very poor use of a mailing list.  Kind 
of like hunting for easter eggs.


> In other words, I'd love to see the old phorum + mail system back in
> place.

It is my understanding that the contrib folks are still working on 
configuring Phorum.  I believe the plan is to have phorum + email 
working again in short order.

With that said, I will say that I disagree that forums are more 
productive than mailing lists.  This may be the case if one only wishes 
to frequent a list or two.  However, if a person subscripts to multiply 
lists, forums tend to be very time consuming to browse and participate 
in.  With a mailing list, you can simply setup mail sort rules to sort 
incoming posts to given mail folders.  A person can then respond to 
posts at one's leasure either off or online, by simply hitting the email 
respond button.  Very nice.

Regards,

Greg Zartman

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