WTF, I'll be a PITA, like it or not, as long as I don't agree or think something is wrong. I won't, however insult, shout, or talk badly to anyone on this mailing list for having a different opinion, specially those who work or worked hard for the project. If you think I'm a PITA and I don't deserve writing to this mailing list, you are free to ban me.
About IRC and mailing list... It's impossible to decide if it's better to IRC or ML. They both have pros and cons. I just think IRC is suitable if you can spend most of your time connected, or (as you said) when you need to talk quickly about a very specific topic. Then you can't beat IRC or instant messaging. For general purpose discussion, I find ML much more useful. I can just receive the email at the phone, wait to be back at home or a computer, sit, think, write, and reply. I know my message will get to everyone that is subscribed and interested on reading it. I agree about the timezones, too. About letting a screen connected to IRC on my home computer... I find it quite annoying. When I get home, i need to review and filter the last 24h chatting, which is mostly about "hey! how are you!", and mostly stuff unrelated to the project. IRC can become "too personal", like a group of friends. With mails, the messages are usually (let out joking, flaming, etc) related to the project, and I can follow what's going on at first sight. > europeans, when Kakaroto is at work). The only issue is that the irc > activity is not counted by sf to sort projects :) that's another con for IRC... Maybe the development has moved too much to IRC, limiting discussions to 4 or 5 people, and leaving many potential contributors out, which are not even aware of what's going on (just like my case). Greets. -- (:=================================:) Alvaro J. Iradier Muro - airad...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
