Hi,
> As has been said previously, an unlinked forum (one which has no
> interaction with the mailing list) is destined to fail, as others have
> in the past. It's creates a fragmented community and poor support on
> such a forum would reflect badly on the PostgreSQL community.
>
> Mailing lists aren't "old school". They've just got a long history,
> and I think you'll find most open source projects probably have a
> mailing list (or several) associated with them.
I watch this thread at a glance, but I think idea of forum isn't bad as long
as it can integrate with mailing list. It's just because you can't say to
people "from tomorrow all of you will use forums instead of mailing lists".
I generally prefer forums, over mailing lists (if ofcourse forums works fast,
with short latancy).
But as suggestion from my side, a really good example of functionality is
NetBeans formus and mailing lists. There, user can join, as well forums and/or
mailing list, each of those is synchronized so every post on forum you can get
by mail and vice versa, you can, as well respond by mail to post, and your
response will be on forum. And as I see "1st Dedicated Forum" has this.
One of nice soultions there is every user has some kind alias e-mail, so you
responds to eg "rsmogura@netbeans.org", not to private addresses, and this
protects you form receiving spam.
Kind regards,
Radek