On Wednesday 29 November 2006 06:12, William Riley wrote: > On Wed, November 29, 2006 7:39 am, Jon Stockill wrote: > >> I am not an active developer, kudos to all you code jockeys on the > >> list, but I prefer forums for ease of navigation. Mailing lists are > >> clunky and difficult to search sometimes. Just my $.02 US. > > > > So are forums - at least I can easily see new mail on a list, rather > > than having to search through lots of different topics in a forum. > > No need to search, when logged in to phpBB (and other forum software I'm > sure) there is a handy little link called "View posts since last visit". > > My local robotics club also uses phpBB and has RSS feeds enabled so I can > use Firefox's Live Bookmark feature to keep track of new postings. > > There are advantages to both lists and forums, no doubt about that.
>From my experience forums are better when you have a large volume of posts and mail lists are better when the volume is lower. I don't think the volume here is large enough to make a forum worth while. Hal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
