On Wednesday 14 September 2005 19:03, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > 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?
This is a great idea! I like forums and prefer them. Reasons why web based forums are better are: 1. They have a search engine. Old entrys are easier accessable, than 80 MB of mailinglist traffic that needs to be downloaded, updated, unzipped etc. 2. The Readably of a web based forum is better. 3. You can allways easily access all the data of a forum on every place. This is not allways the case with mailinglist. For example, when i get them via E-mail on computer 1, i can't read them on computer 2. 4. No spam. 5. No disturbing HTML messages. 6, The chance of quotes of whole messages (E-Mails) is lower. > - People would only have to subscribe once and they could access all the > *Gear forums. I agree. This is reason number 7. :) > If we would like to move towards using forums instead of mailing lists: > > - Should we manage the forums ourselves on our own FG servers? Yes, this is the preferable way. > > - Should we use some other forum hosting service? No, we shouldn't if it is avoidable. Best Regards, Oliver C. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
