[consulting] Use of groups.drupal.org

[Dan Robinson]

Hi Folks,

I know that we've had the conversation about moving over to groups and
that the decision is to wait until the mail is ready.  I had an aha
moment yesterday working with groups.drupal.org.  Again, sorry if this
is old material but basically I was thinking - "who needs email
lists?".  I'm a huge proponent of the inbox as a productivity tool and
user interface - and in "list backed forums" in general.  As a matter of
fact I didn't think that groups.drupal.org would take off until we had
og2list going.  However I set up my RSS feeds for groups and it comes
into my mail client and I realized that basically I don't need much
more.  The only two things would be:

a) Comments in the RSS feed - I am not an RSS guru so I don't know if
this would be possible (i'm sure that the comments could be exported - I
wonder about "threading" however).
b) An inbound mail interface might be nice - and we already have that
capability with the mail command thingie.  Or maybe the "add new
comment" line would be fine.

I can see this being a long-term solution for my clients who want list
backed forums.

Dan