[Icehouse] Icehouse / Treehouse forum?

[David Artman]

Yes, you can set a Google Group to behave like a normal mailing list; see
the link to the Help article that says as much, which I posted in one of
these threads. You can also reply in the same manner/paradigm. I've found
Google Groups to be better than Mailman at maintaining threading (though
both are vulnerable to Digest replies that splinter threads). I think an end
user's email client has far more influence on maintaining threading than the
relay software (listserv or web or pigeons or whatever).

Of course, if one makes a new subject line, one can break the threading (as
on Mailman).

And I realize some confusion, here: I and other haves conflated groupware
with web forums. Regarding a Group, yes, every single one that I have seen
behaves like a mailing list. Then again, I'm only a member of about ten, so
maybe I am underexposed. As for forums, there are a lot of different
applications (like, hundreds, it seems) and some can be set to behave as
email, others only notify, and others use feed technology (a halfway house:
read all with whatever tool you choose; but only reply through site... I
think; not doing much with feeds, so maybe some feed setups have a "reply"
link or even form).

So, to be clear and to avoid immediate dismissal by those who prefer email,
let us only discuss groupware henceforth. It's not really that big of a
difference between groups and forums--we gain mailing list behavior at the
cost of a categorization interface (sub-forums). As for which sort of
goupware: if it must be "installed" onto a private site, I don't have much
advice--I'd have to research to see which backends behave like Yahoo or
Google. But if we're talking an unofficial fan list (i.e. no official
support or redirection), then I'd suggest Yahoo if we prefer Calendar
integration on-site (Google has it "over yonder" relative to the group site)
or Google if we want easy wikification (Pages act more like a wiki--if
cross-linked, of course--than Yahoo Files).

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Dan Isaac <disaac1 at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> It has been said that you can configure your account to receive emails
> just
> like a list server would do. But, can you also just reply to such emails,
> or
> create an entirely new email to send to the "forum" list?
>
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