Re: [SM-DEVEL] [SM-USERS] Proposed changes to squirrelmail.org

[Fredrik J. <jer...@sq...>]

>> Can we think about forums. The mail list is at times really a pain to
>> wade through. There was the suggestion of a wiki. I feel that many of the
>> ordinary users may not be savvy enough going through a wiki even now.
>
> That's a good idea.  I've always been a bit preferential to vBulletin
> myself.  Other thoughts on this one?

There was a forum before, but it was shut down for reasons unknown to me
although I think that forum management took too much time. Basically a
forum and a mailing list is the same thing, but the forum has a web
interface for posting. As far as I know, a forum is just as much pain to
wade through as a mailing list web archive plus it attracts even more
people who don't read the documentation before asking things, since that
kind of people think that forums are more accessible. Personally I have no
interest in a forum, but I don't oppose it either if I don't have to
manage it.

As a side note, I once suggested (as a wild idea) to keep the mailing
lists and use SquirrelMail as a mean for people to post to the mailing
lists. A SquirrelMail installation that only allows to post to the mailing
list plus a web mail archive is almost equal to a forum. It was just some
brainstorming though and not something we really looked into.

Also, one could argue that since SquirrelMail is a mail client, we should
support it using mail just for the sake of it. :)

Sincerely,
Fredrik