On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 10:44 +0000, John Colvin wrote: […] > I assumed by "mailing list" you meant "mailing list / forum / > newsgroup / golden font of topical chatter"
Or whatever :-) > I get that you have a workflow, but surely if you need some > information it's not too hard to use a forum every so often? It depends on whether the forum is needed to start a thread but subsequent contributions to a thread are emailed. The Gradle folk switched from a perfectly good email list to a shiny new, cloudy, cool kids, webby forum which has no capability of email (in a cloudy, webby, cool place who needs that ancient technology called email?). The Gradle developers have the approach "use the forum or do not get community support". So I stopped contributing to the Gradle community. If the GtkD forum is needed to initiate a thread so be it, but unless I get emails of the contributions to the created thread, the forum is worse than useless to me. Forums are fine if you are only interested in one or two communities, once you get beyond 10 forums are unworkable. At least for me. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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