Hi, I am also just playing with FG, lurking on the lists searching for info.
I prefer mailing lists, but it would be really nice if the archives at flightgear were searchable. Sylvain. On 9/14/05, Christian Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Curtis L. Olson schrieb: > > I have a question I'd like to toss out to the group for discussion/comment. > > > > What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and converting > > over to online/web-based forums? > > I hate forums. > > At a mailinglist I've got nothing to do - they come to me. > At a forum I must think of querying it once in a while - I have to come > to them. > > It's like the difference between polling and interrupts... > > > - I'm getting really sick of spam. > > That's a valid point. But I think that can be handeld automatically. THe > admins get 2 kind of mails: > 1) valid mail that bounced > 2) SPAM > > If you'll just have an autoresponder that tells all reasons why a mail > bounced (like: "your email address isn't registerd and/or your mail is > bigger than 40kb") valid users know how to get their next mail through - > and the SPAM doesn't affect *you* anymore. > > > If you really want to switch to a forum I'd only use it for the > fgfs-users mailinglist. > There I can think that the advantages outweight the disadvantages - but > we still need some people that poll that forum. An average developer > probably hasn't got the time... > > CU, > Chris > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) > > iD8DBQFDKG3GlhWtxOxWNFcRAi5CAJwO2hL4oxdyFLMPJuPMx3YBGDd9CQCgmVSJ > BIMR2XKw0zGNIhISL3dapnY= > =GLzg > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
