Actually, I find a newsgroup far superior to a mailing list for this
purpose. Reading and Archiving integrated in the same system and
accessible with the same client. Far less total traffic, since only
those contributions need to be transmitted that are actually read.
It is a pity that newsgroups are used so rarely!
On 27.11.2011 18:41, alex wrote:
Hi folks,
I just wondered why there still is this uncomfortable and obviously outdated
newsgroup software in use.
Perhaps it'd be more contemporary to have a 'real' browser-based forum to which
everyone can register and post D-related questions&answers.
So, my recommendation would be to establish a forum based on phpBB or a similar
framework software (btw, it's free and open source, so don't worry about
possible
costs!) at forum.d-programming-language.org
To give D a further community 'push', I and a friend of mine really would like
to set up all required things if wanted.
The reason I'm asking the newsgroup directly is to have the forum that can be
reachedunder the official D internet URL, so that it won't be a 'third-party'
driven one
or something like that.
Even if this idea should be a bit too 'large', please do fix the http interface
for the D main newsgroup thread - it's not working for me and only gives back a
connection timeout.
