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

[Ana]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:51:06AM -0600, 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?
> 
> I see vBulletin has a newsgroup add-on that also supports fetching mail 
> and sending email (in addition to NNTP).
> 
> By the way, I'd prefer not using a SQL backend or PHP. But okay.
> 
>   Jeremy C. Reed


Someone contacted me off-list saying: "There is one called php-list.
It's quite good :)".  I googled "php-list" and found:

http://www.phplist.com/

which calls itself an "open-source newsletter manager".  That's not what
I would call what I've tried to find in the past.  However, it looks
like it might do what's needed (listserve-forum combo).  If you try it,
please let me/us know how well it works.  Thanks.  :)

- Ana