Forumns instead of email?

Martin Stricker shugal at gmx.de
Wed Sep 24 23:26:45 UTC 2003


Paul Pianta wrote:

> looks like the freesco site is using phpBB for their forums.
> phpBB is really easy to set up and looks and works really well
> to boot!

But it has had several security issues. See the bugtraq archives at
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1 .

> i also think use of a forum would be quite handy! Keep the mailing
> lists for those that prefer to go through 150-200 emails per day -
> and offer the phpBB forums for us lazy buggers that like to click a
> search button - type a couple of keywords - and have all the goodies
> spat out for us  8)

If you have a decent mail user agent, just type a keyboard shortcut or
use the menu to get a serch in messages feature. That will be much
faster, and you don't need to be online...

Best regards,
Martin Stricker
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