Mail list vs. forums

[Chris Moon]

The software to run the bulletin board or "forums" can be had free.    
http://www.phpbb.com/
The only question is what will the traffic do to costs to run our site 
server.  I think an in house hosting would probably be better than RCU 
only because some of the postings here are just in-house bickering and 
doesn't need to be hashed out in a freely open plane like RCU.  The 
upside is huge in that we can post pics and contest flyers.  It would be 
easier to sort though what you want and don't want to read, and if 
everyone remembers all of the problems we had last yr with email viruses 
and peoples' email addresses getting spoofed, this security issued would 
disappear.  I'm sure most people don't really like the idea of having 
their email address on the computers of hundreds of people each time 
they post to the email list.
If the bandwidth costs are not prohibitive, why not run a parallel 
system for a while and see what everyone likes best??

Chris
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