[s-cars] Isn't there a better way...

[Kirby Smith]

I would support having the archives formatted in forum mode.  Perhaps
the archived email messages could be submitted to a vBulletin clone that
sorted by heading.  The "forum" that resulted would not accept any email
except from the list meister, (equivalent to locking threads and topics)
but could be reviewed using the search capabilities of vBulletin.

kirby

Scott Munger wrote:
>
> Some good points for using e-mail lists have been presented.
> I personally feel the forums interface is easier to track threads that
> interest you as well as having a knowledge base that's easily searchable
> (and threads are maintained).
>
> E-mail is pretty easy to manage, especially since you can filter it all
> to one folder, but the thread management is marginal if grouped/sorted by
> subject.  The signal to noise is much higher here than on live forums... as
> they do tend to attract "punks".
>
> Perhaps a more robust archiving feature w/search and threads could satisfy
> everyone?
>
> --Scott
>