[ Date Index ] [ Thread Index ] [ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]
Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > > I hate forums with a passion. They do nothing that mailing lists or > Usenet don't do, and they do it in a way that locks you into a single > interface. If you must do this sort of thing, a web interface to a > newsgroup or mailing list would be the best solution. They also seem to > be a common source of security problems - everybody writes their own > forum, reinventing the wheel and full of the same SQL injection and XSS > problems as all the others. Hehe, OpenSRS just traded their mailing list for a forum. Now instead of getting an email I can reply to, I get an email with a generic heading saying someone has posted something to the forum, and a link that takes my browser to that page. So I have to read every blimin (html - sigh) email to figure out if someone said anything worth responding to. The better forums offer RSS feeds, but even there most are pretty poor compared to a simple mailing list. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html