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

[Ana]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:38:29AM -0800, Paul A. Franz, P.E. wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

As far as I can tell, phpBB does not incorporate a list-serve thing.  Is
that right?  Looks like it can't be tied to a list-serve thing either.

For years, on and off, I have looked for the same thing (Yahoo-groups
like list-serve OSS package) and have never found one.  It seems strange
that it would be so difficult to find, and I wonder if Yahoo has a
patent on the interface or something.

- Ana