Mailing Lists Suck (was Re: [Geowanking] Thank you, but 'no thank you')

[Jason Birch]

Tim Bowden wrote:
> In my experience community activity is either mailing list or web
> forums, but not both.

I help admin a couple lists where we are using Nabble as our crossover 
platform.  Overall it's fairly successful, in that it allows web-centric 
users to stay on the web, and email-lovers to keep getting their email.

The Nabble users tend to be less technical, but also have access to 
better context than the mailing list users, so often can find their 
answers without posting first.

The only real hassle is allowing posts from unsubscribed Nabble users, 
and adding their email addresses to the mailman whitelist.

Jason