Re: [Dynapi-Dev] OT: Forum instead of mailing-list (was:Sometimes I wonder...)

[Jordi - IlMaestro - Ministral]

It used to be forums but it was changed to mailist due to popular demand. Most of
us had mail notification on new message so it was pretty much the same, and now
it is easy to answer, only use your email client to answer. Several mail clients
allow to set up filters so messages matching a certain pattern are automatically
stored in a given folder, you could have all the DYnAPI messages go to a DynAPi
folder and check them when you want, without disturbing your daily job.

Marc van Leeuwen wrote:

> >... if I'm the only one in the USA actively involved in this API.  During
> >the day (my day that is) very little activity here.
> >
> >Then "you guys" wake up and systematically create overload my e-mail account
> >every night.
> >
> >So,...
> >
> >(1) Are Americans lazy?  Prefering to follow Joshua and the "New Gods of
> >Flash".
> >(2) Are Americans shy?  Prefering to lay low and mind their own business
> >(snicker).
> >(3) Are Americans stupid?  Reading these posts in "drop jawed awe" but
> >unable to formulate opinion or make a solid contribution.
> :-)
>
> How funny, there was a discussion some time ago but inverted, I remember
> that was Pascal asking "Am I the only european here ?"
>
> About the amount of mail, I do not like it too. I tried receiving digests
> only, but in practice, it is impossible (i.e. difficult and unhandy) to
> respond, to follow a single discution, so not so useful. I would prefer
> instead of the mailing list a system "� la UBB", where a topic is clearly a
> topic, not mails that cross each other. A second point why I would prefer
> this is that I can check it whenever I want, not receiving lots of email.
> If there is a topic I don't like, I do not have to receive (and delete) all
> the responses to it. A last point would be the amount of mail that is
> beeing sent. I surely think that a UBB-like system is more bandwidth-and
> resource-savy, but I may be wrong. But of course, the annouce list is
> surely better in a mailing-list form.
> However, maybe for some of the receipients, a mail is handyier at work. It
> easyier to justify "I'm reading my mail" than "I'm on the web, but on a
> forum"...
> So I raised a discussion that goes much more far than "Am I the only one
> that wakes up with a full mailbox writtent by some europeans ?", but it is
> maybe worth discussing
>
> Marc
>
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