[Cryptography] Can we move this list to an online forum please?

[Rob Kendrick]

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 04:40:16PM -0500, Greg wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.

IME, people who prefer fora over mailing lists do so because their mail
client is awful, and/or there isn't a searchable archive of the list.

> Forums are simply superior to mailing lists in almost all respects (perhaps all).
> 
> - Easier and faster to administer and moderate

Than what?  Mailing lists once set up require next to no administration
at all, and moderation is trivial (and often web-based nayway)

> - We don't have to wait for emails to be approved and show up

So not moderated?

> - Conversations are organized better

Mail client issue.  Most web fora don't thread, and has a dedicated site
rather than landing in my mail client.

> - Nobody complaining about "top posting", trimming "cruft" and other such nonsense

That's because everybody top posts on fora!

> - An easy to search and read public log of all conversations

Mailing lists can have these.

> - Emoticons

:)

> - Stars

*

> - Badges
> - Bells

Why does anybody want these?

> Thoughts?

In the Lua programming language world, a few years ago this topic
turned up too.  The mailing list is still going with ~3000 subscribers
with a high SnR, and the fora that spawned has perhaps a dozen people on
it, and has had routine downtime while security issues in whatever
software they're chosen that's written by rogue clowns in PHP.

B.