[Psi-devel] Users list

[Norman Rasmussen]

On 3/26/07, Remko Tronçon <remko at el-tramo.be> wrote:
> > *smack* http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.network.jabber.psi.devel
>
> That's psi-devel. Paul wanted something similar, but for users
> (instead of the forum).

woops, sorry, my bad.

> The only reason we use a forum is because you
> can post with a slightly lower overhead than to a mailinglist, and we
> want to keep the threshold for reporting bugs and giving feedback as
> low as possible. We do realize that forums are not the most convenient
> thing to read, but we figured that the only people that would actively
> follow the forums would be the moderators (and developers), and that
> all the 'interesting' information for users would come from elsewhere
> (like Planet Psi, the front page of the website, ...)
>
> IIRC, we have been looking at forum software that was able to
> interface between a mailinglist, but we didn't settle on one yet. If
> there are suggestions for better forum software, that is also able to
> interface to mailinglist, feel free to post them here.

ugh, our local club wanted the same thing. Half the people like
mailing lists, the other half like forumns, and there's nothing that
does both.  In the end we've ended up with something much like Psi has
at the moment.

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