On Wednesday, Jun 25, 2003, at 03:43 America/New_York, Winfried Ritsch wrote:
One question in the installation file:
If you want to replace CMF's DiscussionTool with CMFForum's One:
I don't know. Is the discussion tool the one used in the news section? If so then it's more an annotation tool than a forum. With this annotation mechanism it's possible to remove postings, but not with the forum. Also, for some odd reason, the forum doesn't have a thread view while the discussion tool have. We better decide before opening the site...
Can you test it and report ? What are the differences ?
I never used a Forum since every Document, Object has an Discussion tool which makes it as Forum, the only difference is that forums can be found under one URL. So maybe only a Search for new Objects visible or published could form a forum.
Since nowadays Forums and weblogs have Subscription support and email entry, they become more and more an mailinglists. So why don't just make a mailboxer with additional a online form to mail, so poeple can make up mailinglists for their projects, have the archives online like a forum and all mailinglists are searchable over the site.
So I think we can make a content crop machine out of the page, since many info on a lively community is just in mails.
This to me sounds like it could be ideal solution. I didn't know there was such a Product. I am browsing through http://www.dzug.org/mailinglisten/zope/ now, and it has raised a few questions:
- Is there a threaded view, rather than a linear view? It would nice to have the threaded view for archival reading, and the forum view for more day-to-day reading and posting.
- Can you post anonymously using a Mailboxer? I couldn't find an Mailboxer page that allows posting from the web.
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