On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Bogdan Roman wrote:
This is another instance in which a web-based forum (as opposed to a
mailing-list) makes things easier as you can put rules up whenever
people hit the "start new thread" button, have them pinned in the
thread list as well, etc. I understand the mailing-list choice, and
I'm old-school in many respects myself, but are there any plans of
migrating this particular one to a web forum like many others did?
I love it when I don't have to open a web page to start digging through
posts. I hope they don't take it the forum path.
You can subscribe only to the threads you want to and receive notification
only for those, rather than the entire list. This list seems pretty quiet so
it's not that big of an issue - and yes, I know I can setup filters. I found
that communities tend to be much bigger on web forums than on mailing-lists
which still drive many users away. Ubuntu has greatly benefited from that
(granted, not really a niche product).
A bigger community may not always be better - the s/n ratio could get
worse...
I just use the mailing list archives when I need to research stuff, really
really prefer that the mailing list itself not require posting/reading via
some web page.
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