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RE: Anagram for Topica

• Posted by Peter Willems <peter at integratedmoves.com> Aug 29, 2003
• 416 views

Juergen Luethje wrote:

> Peter Willems wrote:
<snip>
> >    Yep, and many forums have a "mailing list" integrated to their
> >    message system.... but wait, there's more (always wanted to say
> >    that <grin>)... when you use a forum as a mailing list you can
> >    actually subscribe to separate discussions instead of getting
> >    ALL the messages including the ones you don't want.
> >
> >    Now **THAT** is a great invention 

> Agreed. What's it's name, and where can we find it?

    The best one I know (and I'm running one myself) that you can
    actually post to through e-mail is Discus.
    http://www.discusware.com

    One example you can do with it: I'm running it for a community
    of musicians that use a certain studio software. There was a
    mailinglist at Yahoo groups but people where asking for a forum.
    As the developer of the software at that time did not want to
    set up a forum, I did it myself. Most of the community moved
    over to my forum (close to a thousand users now) but a lot of
    people liked the mailing list as well.
    On my forum we have a few announcement areas where stuff is posted
    that is of interest to ALL users. So I did set up a dumy-user on
    my forum that corresponds with a dummy account on Yahoo groups.
    I then subscribed the dummy account to the announcement areas for
    receiving messages through e-mail. Now when an announcement is
    posted on the forum, it is automatically send to the Yahoo mailing
    list as an e-mail message.

    Something like that could be done here as well tmo 

Hans Peter Willems