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[Paul Johnson]

Remko Tronçon wrote in Article
<133fd4c60703260529s4ee6e670v55d7ff58fe7c0c3b at mail.gmail.com> posted to
gmane.network.jabber.psi.devel:

>> *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). 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.

Email is a pretty low bar.  Learning and waiting on someone else's slow web
interface raises the bar, enough to make entry impractical at best.  Nobody
should have to jump through more hoops to get a worse replacement for a
mailing list.

> 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.

Sounds like you're describing mailman or sympa.

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Paul Johnson
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