Rod Whitby wrote:
I have no problem with OpenMoko creating a forum for end users.
As a developer, I won't be going there regularly. I might drop in now
and again to see what the signal to noise ratio is.
Why?
Simply because the only time of the day where I can spare 60 minutes to
catch up on project communications is on the bus to and from work.
With mailing lists, I can download *all* my mail and read (and respond)
to it offline on the bus. I read (well, mostly delete) over 1000
messages per day from at least 10 different development mailing lists
via this method.
I have not yet found a forum that allows you to have all new messages
emailed to you, or to have *all* past messages since *exactly* the last
message you saw provided to you by an RSS feed (all the feeds I've seen
will give you the last N messages, or the last day's worth of messages,
so if I go away for three days it is not possible to see all the
messages I missed).
So when an official forum is blessed by someone, please make sure it is
a forum that has a *bidirectional* email gateway. Anything else is
simply sub-standard for my usage patterns.
NNTP is another option - and there are NNTP-email gateways since forever.
There is also much web-based NNTP readers out there.
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