--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, "mailmur" <mailmur@...> wrote:

>
> Is it that Firebird community does not have a vbulletin/phpBB bulletin
> forum available?
>
> I always find these mailing lists non intuitive. Bulletin forum would
> have a good search, archiving, better thread handling etc... features.
>
> Mailing lists are just too much chaos. Or do I just read it using a
> wrong clients?
>
> I use groups.yahoo.com site to follow Firebird lists and post through
> same yahoo ui. It just lists all messages in a flat format, no
> vbulletin threads, no good search, etc... lacking everything else you
> expect to find at year 2006.
>

The general problem with phpBB, vBulletin, etc. is that it has to be
hosted by someone, somewhere. Even if someone could donate hosting
services, the result is that its a single point of failure for the
entire community if it goes down.

And they do. phpBB and vBulletin are some of the most targetted and
hacked systems out there. We host a couple of these and spend 200%
more time securing and administering those products than anything
else. Although they are nice for community forums, the risks
associated with using something like that would, IMHO, far outweigh
the benefits of letting Yahoo take care of it all.

My $0.02 worth.

Myles