On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 "Heinrich C. Kuhn" hck@lrz.uni-muenchen.de wrote:
Janusz: Thanks for the fast reply!
You have all this (perhaps without RSS feed and direct messaging) in the sympa mailserver recommended by me earlier.
At least RSS is essential for me, as it permits me to filter automatically with a rather fine granularity. (Yes, my preferences anre just *my* preferences.)
http://www.sympa.org/overview/features
RSS feeds show the latest lists and the latest messages for each list
What most forums (at least those I know) are missing is a convenient way to selectively quote other postings, which negatively affects exchange of views.
I'm using YaBB. No problems with selective quotes there.
Is there a demo version for experimenting?
In my opinion mailing lists are better than any forum on the condition that you use a decent software to read mail. If you read mail using some cumbersome Web interface then of course the situation is different. On the other hand almost all mailing lists have also some Web interfaces, so the comparison is not straightforward.
Best regard
Janusz