On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 04:52:30PM +0100, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
IMO, the best solution are newsgroups. What I dislike with web-based communication (webmail, webforums) is that webbrowsing is not as flexible as using a specialized software and that you are not free in choosing your communication software apart from choosing a webbrowser ??? you have to live with the webmail/webforum software installed on the server, independently of whether you like it or not.
That's a good point... or points. I also like newsgroups, but I haven't used them in a while, probably because most of discussions about haskell take place on mailing lists. Maybe it's time to register comp.lang.haskell? Could someone tell me something about fa.haskell? Is it a mirror of haskell@haskell.org? Can it be used to post messages through NNTP?
How about a forum integrated with mailing lists?
Does such a thing already exist somewhere?
Not that I know of. How about an integrated newsgroup+mailinglist+forum. If we had a two-way newsgroup+mailinglist integration, people could use it also as a forum, for example through gmail.google.com. But I don't use fora, so I probably talk nonsense. Best regards Tomasz