[Wine] Sympa vs Mailman/phpbb/mail2forum

[Paul Johnson]

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 09:40:19 am Jeremy White wrote:
> >> Do you have it up in a publicly viewable test mode?  Sympa was not one
> >> of the packages I looked at when I did my survey, so I'm game to take a
> >> look.
> >
> > I'm afraid I don't.
> >
> >> Their public demo looked interesting, but I thought it would be useful
> >> to look at a configuration that was tuned to be a wine-users
> >> mailman/phpbb replacement.
> >
> > I'm a little confused, since that's what sympa is by definition...
>
> Well, when you create a list, you get a range of choices.
>
> Two seem like likely candidates; one is public mailing list, and one is Web
> Forum. I'm not sure exactly what the difference is.

Aaah.  The former is a forum with a mailing list interface, the latter is just 
the forum.

> So far, the archives aren't viewable yet, so I'm not really
> able to assess it.  Hopefully that's just a matter of some time
> so I can look further.

It wouldn't surprise me if they've disabled archiving to prevent spammers from 
abusing their demo server.

-- 
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
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