On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:39:34 -0500, "M. Adam Davis" said: > I don't know the answer to your question, but it points to a general > need for an API to make it easy to pull from and answer to forums, > since so many people are moving to them and away from mailing lists. > > RSS is fine for simple notification, but a robust forum API that would > allow custom clients (either web or applications) to access, read, and > post messages to forums would probably be a big hit, and you'd only > have to develop the API, and then contribute an implementation to > maybe 5 major forum software groups for it to take off. > > That would eliminate a few valid, currently intractable, reasons to > stay with email. Maybe something like an IMAP email and forum hybrid? That might work. When it broke it would be a mess. Cheers, Bob -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different... -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist