On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 03:30:39PM +0000, Leonti Bielski wrote: > Hi! > I was wondering - why are we not using forum for community? > It's much better to view, you can subscribe and unsubscribe to the > topics you want and etc. > The main > Personally I don't like mailing list because it's not that comfortable > and I can see no advatages of using mailing list instead of forum? > Can anyone explain to me why we can't install
I can see no advantages of using a forum instead of a mailing list. Forums are, in my opinion, a far *worse* system for tracking multiple topics and threads of conversation than mailing lists. With a mailing list, I can trivially search the whole archive, rearrange all the posts by pretty much any criterion I choose to pick, read only new posts without having to search for them, and I get far better and clearer threading support in my mail client than in any forum I've ever seen. I also don't have to wait while my web browser loads the page to see the next post (or thread, or whatever). I've never managed to maintain any interest or engagement in a project where the primary interaction with the project is via forums. It's just too much hard work to make it worthwhile for me. Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: [EMAIL PROTECTED] carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- There's many a slip 'twixt wicket-keeper and gully. ---
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