Other feature: With a forum Polls can be simply added to posts. By 
example, a poll to submit a new idea to the community... :-)

In my mind, the most interesting features are:
     *  Unlimited forums can be organized into as many categories as you 
like
     * Powerful search facility
     * Polls can be simply added to posts
     * Email notification of replies to your topics
     * Powerful topic subscription capability
     * Personal profile creation
     * Email-like private messaging system
     * Topic editing
     * Mass delete/move/lock/unlock of posts
     * Topic splitting
     * Option of auto-pruning of old or unanswered messages on a 
per-forum basis
     * Easy database backup and restore
     * Complete member management

I would like to have these features to support squeak and facilitate all 
participations: from newbies to expert, from person with a mail reader 
to person with webmail.

If you are agree with me, I'm ready to manage a forum. But this 
initiative are only possible with the support of the community...

Christophe



Hübner, Uwe wrote:
> In my view:
>  
> Mailing-Lists:
>  
> - More hidden from public
> - Members are more forced to notice discussions (whether they are 
> interested or not) [unless they automatically 'filter' into an E-Mail 
> folder] 
> - A bit more complicated to review postings that are older than your 
> subscription (archive)
> - Unless the archive is publicly available on a website nothing may be 
> 'googled'
>  
> Forums:
>  
> - Can easily be read by everyone who is interested
> - You have to 'discipline' yourself to read the forum regularly
> - Current postings may be 'googled'
> - Have a tree structure concerning a specific subject
>  
>  
> Note: I don't say what are pros and cons!
>  
> Uwe
> 
> 
>  -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> *Von:* Christophe Tricot [mailto:christophe.tricot at univ-savoie.fr]
> *Gesendet:* Montag, 10. Oktober 2005 11:43
> *An:* The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> *Betreff:* A real forum for Squeak
> *Wichtigkeit:* Hoch
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>      (I don't speak very well English so I'm sorry for mistakes... ;-) )
> 
>      I'm looking for a forum about Squeak like phpBB (or smallBB??). I
>     think a forum is better than a mailing list because of users can
>     organize discussions by themes and, users can subscribe to subjects
>     or kind of subjects to follow discussions. Furthermore, everybody
>     can easily consult old messages and users with rights can manage the
>     organizations of subjects. If you want more details you can read
>     features of phpBB here: http://www.phpbb.com/features.php
> 
>      What do think about this idea?
> 
>      Christophe
> 
> 
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> 
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