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Per, The solution you seek is already a part of most online forum software. It's called "email notification of topic replies" and very frequently the body of the message is included in the e-mail. >On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:38 PM, nick@12testing.net <nick@1957.me.uk> >wrote: >> Depends on your criteria. We're not mega busy, but 463 posts, 80 >> members indicates we're not totally moribund either! It's there for >> those of us who prefer forums (forii?) > > >Not for me, but maybe for others. I wouldn't have the time needed for >keeping up with a forum. I think it would be optimal with both a >mailing list and a forum hosting the same posts. A serious forum build >must mean any list post will be duplicated into a forum post and every >forum post will be duplicated to the list - forum thread equaling >e-mail subject line. Then the idea of using a forum or an e-mail >client for interacting would mean just a choice of tool for >participating in the very same discussion. This is especially >important with this community because you people tend to wander off >into off-topic land in the most wonderful way! :-)) And IMHO we can't >afford to lose that for the sake of freakish sanity still alive and >well in here. > >Good things with fora is that we can post articles and tutorials that >include pictures. Back-side is that it's a slow way of mass >communications. Both needed in my opinion. > >Greetings from Sweden > >Per Boysen >www.boysen.se >www.perboysen.com -- ... http://www.zmix.net