On 11/14/2010 03:13 AM, Thom Brown wrote:
> It's a shame that a forum can't act as a front-end for a mailing list,
> so signing up to the forum actually signs you up to a mailing list (if
> you're not already signed up), but without receiving any emails.
> Messages posted to the forum would get sent to the list, and vice
> versa. And such a system would need to support cross-posting too somehow.
It can. The glassfish forums are bidirectionally gatewayed to the
mailing list in just such a manner, and it works astonishingly well.
Before using those I would've been opposed to the idea, but now ... it
doesn't seem so bad.
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Craig Ringer