On Wednesday 14 September 2005 18:03, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and converting > over to online/web-based forums?
Personally, I very much prefer mailing lists. I can quite see the advantages of web-based forums, but I'm not convinced they outweigh the disadvantages. For one thing, it's much easier to keep up with the mailing lists, as I monitor my email through most of the day for real work purposes anyway. In contrast, although I do visit some web-based forums now and again, it's very infrequently, and you have to keep revisiting to see whether anything's been posted or not - automatic emails to say something's been posted would obviously be very annoying. The spam issue I'm not certain I've grasped properly - if you mean that "moderators" of these lists are getting bombarded with spam that's destined for the mailing lists, can't this just be automatically dumped? AJ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
