[SLL] joined web forum and mailing list(s)

[Paul A. Franz, P.E.]

On Tue, January 6, 2009 6:51 am, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I am looking for a web forum software that is well integrated with mailing
> list(s). So I can use the forum entirely via email and others can use the
> forum entirely using the webpage interface. I guess this would be like
> Yahoo Groups. (I was also told that Google Groups also allows posting to
> mailing lists. And I also see the gmane.org web interface for reading and
> posting to lists. So maybe something like that.)
>
> I am not talking about the feature where you click a checkbox on webpage
> or enter an email address on the webpage to get emails sent.
>
> Any suggestions?

A very good one is phpBB

<http://www.phpbb.com/>

Open source. I'm on a number of lists that use it.

> By the way, I'd prefer not using a SQL backend or PHP. But okay.

Well, PHP is used in phpBB but it works for Matronics who hosts a few hundred lists
with 10's of thousands of messages posted daily.

>   Jeremy C. Reed
>


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