[mythtv-users] Marriage of Email List and Forum, Can't we alljust get along!!

[Vincent K. Britton]

Yes that is similar to how this would work.

If you reply to a message it would be added the same way as if you
clicked "post reply".  If you were to send an email with a 'fresh'
subject then you would have done the same thing as "new topic".  

People who like the Mail List (Like Me) would never have to check the
forum.  I am not trying to push this on anyone.  As I said, I came
across this project trying to make my wife happy.  She's happy and I
thought I'd bring it to the attention of you guys and gals!

Existing users who would prefer the forum would change their "Forum
Subscriptions" option to stop receiving every message.  

I think the greatest feature would be that NEW users would have to
enable the mail list feature if the wanted.  Why do I feel this is a
good Idea?  Well 95% of posts from new users have been answered before.
When a new user sign's on to the forum or can search as a guest.
They'll be more likely to look for there answer here (forum which they
kinda understand) then to search the archives.

Or am I off base here?

V
-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of gLaNDix (Jesse
Kaufman)
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 11:48 AM
To: David Blackwell; Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Marriage of Email List and Forum, Can't we
alljust get along!!

David Blackwell wrote:
> I for one think this would be great.. I don't mind checking a forum
> everyday.  But for example, not everyone has hdtv and those emails
> just keep coming and filling up the ol' inbox :-)

i definitely prefer mailing list, because it's a lot faster to work with

(everything is done locally, unless you're using imap like i am, but 
even that is incredibly fast when switching from one message to another)

and you have a lot more options as far as how to handle the incoming 
message (procmail, spam filtering, e-mail clients that strip html or 
only view the text of an html e-mail, etc) ...

but, there are many who like forums, so something similar to (i'm 
assuming this is how it'd work) yahoo groups would be good ...  based on

reading people's text in the group i'm subscribed to, many are using the

forum to post, but i only ever use e-mail ... everyone has a chance to 
see everything and you've got two interfaces in which to interact with 
the list...

-g-
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