So the suggestion is:

All Users lists become forums.
Developer lists stay.


Only problem I see there is that Developers won't check the forums as much
as they should, unless the Users forum has a mail list interface.


Hen

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Robert Simmons wrote:

> Well, once again I would like to bring up the concept of forum
> software for Jakarta. The reason I am bringing it up again is that
> mailing lists are intrusive and spammy. Daily I get flooded with a ton
> of email that I have absolutely no interest in reading. However if I
> unsubscribe to the lists than when there is something that I would
> like to know about or answer, I will miss it. In addition, if I
> unsubscribe I'm not able to post my own issues. With a mailing list,
> the communication mechanism is just too intrusive. On a forum I can
> pick and choose what I want to read and reply to.
>
> As for them being used, its a simple matter of retiring mailing lists
> for forum software.
>
> When we consider that at least 90% of Jakarta users are not Jakarta
> developers but will often have a question or an important insight,
> than the folly of communicating only in mailing lists becomes clear.
>
> -- Robert Simmons


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