> There is another problem with the email mailing list: please keep in
> mind that the majority of people on this mailing list are ordinary
> users. Not people who live and breath bacula 24 hours a day the way
> developers do, but people who have another job to complete, and bacula
> may be just 1% of that job.
I am with you there. Bacula is 1% of my job and after  around 5 years
of bacula there is very little interaction per month with bacula. I
may need to add a tape to the changer every 2 months or so. Or run a
manual backup once a week.

> For such people, like me, an email list
> means that my mailbox gets filled up every day with posts from people
> who have questions completely unrelated to how I use bacula.

This is where gmail helps. The box never fills up and I generally do
not delete non spam email. Threading is much better than yahoo.

> With all that said, I think there already is an excellent solution
> available that solved all these problems: Yahoo Groups. OK, Open-Source
> purists probably don't like it because it's proprietary. Quite frankly,
> though, I have to say: "so what?"
>
Yuck. I really hate yahoo groups. Although I admit the biggest problem
is they require it to tie to a yahoo account. The problem with that is
my yahoo account (its a paid one / have to cancel) gets 1000 spam
messages per day. And I am not exaggerating.
>
> - It works both as a forum and as a mailing list, and is nicely
> integrated between the two.
> - Single sign on for many groups. VERY important.
> - You can post by email or on the Web.
> - Spam doesn't seem to be a major problem; Yahoo solved it (except for
> their Grouply problem).

Maybe because my yahoo account is many years old. They have definitely
not solved spam for me.

> - It preserves threading properly (unless somebody using email breaks it
> - that's even more of a problem with mailing lists).
> - Nearly everybody already has a Yahoo account anyway - and tied to an
> email address.
> - You can turn off email delivery, and still participate in the group.
>
John

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