<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>* ... What else?<br>><br><br>How about the ability to post/read/respond to messages even when you're
<br>not at your own computer? Many people on Yahoo Groups, for instance,<br>don't even have a computer at home and access their groups from works or<br>library computers. To my mind, this is probably the most important<br>
advantage a forum has over an email list.<br></blockquote></div><br>Are Yahoo Groups allowing to access regular newsgroups? Supposing it is, making Wine's mailing a newsgroup would make it accessible through that service and others (ex Google Groups). I haven't used that feature, but I know Google Groups allows to rate posts with 1-5 stars.
<br><br>I'm not an heavy newsgroup user, so I'll leave it to you to find disadvantages of using that approach. <br><br>