[Icehouse] Forum v List

[David Artman]

And Google Groups! (Go to Group settings > Advanced, and you'll see how a
non-Google Groups mailing list can be archived in a GG

Drawback: you are doing little more than "echo" the listtserv, creating
duplicate archives (maybe a good thing); and you aren't fully integrating
the other ffucntional offerings (ex: rich text posting, Calendar integration
and notifications, etc).

Unless... if the group's email addy was added to the listserv subscription,
then the group itself could "send to" the listserv, rather than the listserv
merely echoing down to the group as an archive. In other words, more of a
"nesting" of the group under the listserv.

But in the end, ain't that a whole lot of circling around your elbow to get
to where the toilet paper goes? A group being set to behave as a listserv
for certain individuals seems more elegant than a listserv being echoed in
(or supervening over) a group. I wanna say it's a kind of "wag the dog"
arrangement, probably only offered because of a niche with certain
organizations that, for whatever VALID functional reason, can't transition
to Web 2.0 paradigm (security, confidentiality, legacy system investment and
integration, etc).

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Dale Newfield <Dale at newfield.org> wrote:

> Nabble.com offers free tools to present your mailing list as a forum.
> (yes, there are other sites, too. mail-archive.com for example)
>
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