Vivian Meazza wrote: > AJ MacLeod wrote > > >>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. >> >>For one thing, it's much easier to keep up with the mailing lists, as I >>monitor my email through most of the day for real work purposes anyway. >>In >>contrast, although I do visit some web-based forums now and again, it's >>very >>infrequently, and you have to keep revisiting to see whether anything's >>been >>posted or not - automatic emails to say something's been posted would >>obviously be very annoying. >> > > > I'm in much the same situation as AJ, and agree with his view on this one. > > Regards > > Vivian > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > I also prefer mailing lists, and would like to point out that not only is there no reason that e-mail list's can't be searchable, but that in fact this one is with the notable exception of the previous month plus possible some delay for google to catch up.
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