[NCLUG] Mailing list or forum?

[Rich Young]

If you use an auto-archiving mailing list like mailman, it offers most
of the features of a bulletin board package.  The only things I can
think of off the top of my head that it won't do are categorization -
but that could be approximated with multiple lists - and avoid certain
email drawbacks like spam filtration and delivery delay issues.  

I do know that phpBB has a considerably more checkered security
reputation than mailman, for what that's worth.

Good luck with the decision.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nclug-bounces at nclug.org 
> [mailto:nclug-bounces at nclug.org] On Behalf Of Paul Wehr
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 8:19 PM
> To: NCLUG
> Subject: [NCLUG] Mailing list or forum?
> 
> Question of choice.
> 
> I'm in the process of setting some forum software phpBB 
> <http://www.phpbb.com/> on my home server box to see how/if I 
> can get it to work. I know that 
> <http://www.linuxquestions.org> uses it and it seems to 
> support many options.
> 
> On the other hand, NCLUG uses a mailing list.
> 
> I subscribe to information in both formats. I would guess 
> that both have their adherents and detractors.
> 
> Can anyone think of any reasons why I might avoid forum 
> software such as phpBB?
> --
> Paul Wehr
> wehrp at mac.com
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