A J MacLeod wrote: > Curtis L. Olson wrote: > > What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and > > converting over to online/web-based forums? > > Personally, I very much prefer mailing lists. I can quite see the > advantages of web-based forums, but I'm not convinced they outweigh > the disadvantages.
Ditto. Reading threaded mail with Thunderbird vs. with PHPbb or the like isn't even a fair comparison. It would be a very significant hardship for me to have to deal with web forums for flightgear stuff, and I'm not normally one to be a stubborn complainer. :) That said, I know I've seen "gatewayed" implementations that do both successfully. They have a registration-required, no-authorizing-stray-posts-necessary email interface for the clueful, and a more permissive environment for the browser jockeys. I'm not sure whether any of these are free software, but I'm sure someone's tried it... Andy _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
