> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick > Reynolds-FM&T > > Surely all these things could be possible on the BBC if we > set it up right...
Developers like to get their data in different ways to 'regular' users, some of which Al has already enumerated below. Email clients, and the good mailing list packages, offer far better threading, navigation, and archiving across high-volume message sets than (for instance) the regular BBC messageboards do right now. Technical audiences really value these things, because it saves them time. The offline use case is a huge one - and whilst theoretically solvable for web-based technologies (Google Gears etc), you'd be reinventing the wheel for little gain. Mailing lists and email clients fulfil these criteria right now. In other words, if it ain't broke, one size doesn't fit all, etc etc. PT > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Pope > Sent: 04 March 2010 10:56 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman > > On 4 March 2010 10:40, Nick Reynolds-FM&T <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Why? What can you do on a mailing list that you can't do on > a message > > board? > > > > Yay! Web boards vs mailing list religious debate! > > Read and reply to current posts whilst offline (email client > of choice). > Read the content of the message without downloading > unnecessary crap like avatars, banners, adverts, great gobs > of javascript - useful on 3G connections. > Choose how the content is presented to you (console, web, fat > mail client, news reader [via 3rd party]). > Decently thread conversations in the client of your choice. > Archive the content without relying on the server (i.e. keep mail in a > folder) Search content without relying on the server (again, > offline if > required) > > etc etc. > > Al. > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
