[FFML] A thought on the future of the FFML

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:01 PM, The Wanderer <wanderer at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> If you're proposing what I think you are (either a Web-based forum which
> automatically posts to the list, or transforming the list into something
> which automatically posts to and receives posts from a Web-based forum),
> the other problem I see is the one of quoting styles.
>
> What constitutes good quoting in a Web forum (much less in social media)
> and what constitutes good quoting in E-mail are different things. I've
> gone into detail on that in the past - in rec.games.roguelike.angband,
> IIRC, after a proposal to create a gateway between that group and the
> more active Web forum - and can do so again if need be.
>
> If that problem can be satisfactorily addressed, I think I might like
> this approach. (And I'm about as hardcore a proponent of mailing lists -
> including specifically plain-text mailing lists - over Web forums as
> you're likely to find.)


Would you, please?  I can think of ways to do  forum with email quoting
style, but if you already have a proposal written up...

I've seen forum+list merges before.  They tend to be useful for special,
limited audiences - but the FFML may well be such an audience.
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