# The forum integration

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-forum-integration/162860>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [March 14, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-forum-integration/162860 "2009-03-14T17:51:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-forum-integration/162860/1 "2009-03-14T17:51:02Z")

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Can I go ahead and say that this is getting annoying?

It either needs to be transparently integrated or not. Being copied on  
each forum thread, while I enjoy forums, really does suck.

Maybe we can take this offline (Cliff, Jim, anyone else) and figure  
out a better solution.

Then we won’t need [FORUM] either, as it will be transparent. Except  
maybe a footer saying “posted from  
[http://forum.nginx.org/thread.php?3432](http://forum.nginx.org/thread.php?3432) etc.” - just like ruby-forum.

I’m sure we can find a two-way mail integration for vBulletin.

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**Author:** ![mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-forum-integration/162860/2 "2009-03-14T19:01:33Z")

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On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 09:40:01AM -0700, mike wrote:

> Can I go ahead and say that this is getting annoying?

Very annoying.

> It either needs to be transparently integrated or not. Being copied on  
> each forum thread, while I enjoy forums, really does suck.

I’d like it if forums stayed on the web and far, far away from the  
mailing list. Just my opinion.

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**Author:** ![mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-forum-integration/162860/3 "2009-03-14T19:33:14Z")

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On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Darrin Chandler  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I’d like it if forums stayed on the web and far, far away from the  
> mailing list. Just my opinion.

I thought about that, but without folks like Igor and Maxim, the  
forums might be somewhat busy but won’t have the “final say” that Igor  
has, for instance.

Also it will wind up with a lot of cross-linking back and forth.  
“There’s a discussion on the mailing list right now about this” or  
"We’ve been talking about it on the forum thread here … " - then the  
information becomes split-brained…

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**Author:** ![mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-forum-integration/162860/4 "2009-03-14T20:23:36Z")

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On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:26:37AM -0700, mike wrote:

> Also it will wind up with a lot of cross-linking back and forth.  
> “There’s a discussion on the mailing list right now about this” or  
> "We’ve been talking about it on the forum thread here … " - then the  
> information becomes split-brained…

I’m a lot less concerned about the forums than with keeping the mailing  
list as useful as it is now. Like I said, it’s just my opinion.