Hi Geza,
On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 08:50:48PM +0200, Geza Giedke wrote:
I know that I'm old-fashioned in this respect, but I think for online discussions no better system than Usenet has been invented, but mailing lists are the next best options.
Full ACK.
Is there any software that could provide a (bidirectional) interface between a webforum and a mailinglist?
There was the software used at gmane.org, which for many years provided not only a web archive to mailing lists, but also NNTP access. In fact, I believe their custom NNTP ssrver was actually the main storage backend.
Unfortunately when gmane.org went down it never really recovered, and I believe the original source code was never released as it was deemed unfit for any wider use by the author[s]?
It's really sad that there are no better, mailing-list interoperable/compatible web forum systems out there.
mailman3 with hyperkitty looks like an interesting approach, but importing the osmocom.org list archives on a 16-core machine with 32GB of RAM took more than 3 days, at which point I deemed it as "not fit for production".
This is getting more and more off-topic... but I realy like the e-mail integration of redmine. You can receive ticket updates by e-mail and respond to them, both by e-mail and online. But it's not a general-purpose discussion tool, but an issue tracker. gerrit's e-mail integration is also getting better and better with every release, btw.
Regards, Harald