Hi,
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 05:24, Curtis Olson wrote:
> Now that I am hosting the FlightGear web site with a commercial hosting
> service, it becomes quite easy to setup online "forums" using phpBB2.
>
> I know our development culture is built around mailing lists. I'm sure the
> FlightGear community will be decisively split between forums versus mailing
> lists if I ask people's preferences ... so I'm not expecting a consensus
> here. Is this anything that is worth exploring? Is it worth having both
> options available? Would end user support benefit from forums? Would
> forums be useful for those that have trouble with sourceforge's spam
> blockers? A backup communication mechanism for when the sourceforge email
> lists experience their inevitable down time?
>
> Thoughts?
I do not like forums in any form.
I am subscribed on many mailing lists and I have filters that sort them into
local archives that I can handle all in the same way. I do not want to look
at many different web pages that all look different and that are searchable
different and in a less comfortable way I can search my private mails. I had
that often problems with forums or other web browser based applications that
I have put together some statement and then the web browser happened to crash
before that is submitted to the server ...
That said I will most probably switch to many more private offlist mails if we
switch of the mailing list.
Greetings
Mathias
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