<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">FYI, for whatever reason, two people messaged me offlist (I think, unless they BCC'd the list) saying that they supported the idea. <div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div>On-list support would be more helpful though.</div><div><br></div><div>One of them offered free hosting for the site:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><i>I'll spawn a VM on a private box in our [redacted], install the OS, install<br>SMF and host it for free in perpetuity if you can get critical mass and<br>find people to admin it etc.</i></blockquote></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Over on [randombit] a couple folks said that they'd rather move to a decentralized system, but offered no such alternatives, and I don't know of any such alternatives that are easy for everyone to use and offer the same features that forums do.</div><div>
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<br><div><div>On Dec 24, 2013, at 4:40 PM, Greg <<a href="mailto:greg@kinostudios.com">greg@kinostudios.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I've used both phpBB and simplemachines, and far prefer the latter for its simpler configuration, administration, and what seem like superior spam-fighting capabilities.<br><br>The advantages are almost too numerous to list, and if people like getting the message via email then the software can be configured to include it in the notification emails that are sent out.<br><br>Forums are simply superior to mailing lists in almost all respects (perhaps all).<br><br>- Easier and faster to administer and moderate<br>- We don't have to wait for emails to be approved and show up<br>- Conversations are organized better<br>- Nobody complaining about "top posting", trimming "cruft" and other such nonsense<br>- An easy to search and read public log of all conversations<br>- Emoticons<br>- Stars<br>- Badges<br>- Bells<br>- I hear they have whistles too<br><br>Pretty please?<br><br>Thoughts?<br><br>--<br>Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>The cryptography mailing list<br><a href="mailto:cryptography@metzdowd.com">cryptography@metzdowd.com</a><br>http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography</blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>