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.One suggestion and one idea:
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
1. Install spamassassin and server-side filtering (with procmail, for instance). ;-) (It saves me between 5 and 10 spam messages a day, quite an effort just to download and delete).
2. During the ApacheCon I had an interesting discussion with Cocoon and Subversion people (I'm too bad to remember names, but i *do* remember the faces, OK? ) about a dream: A MTA that would show threads folded into a kind of "diffs", where each mail in a thread would be coloured in a different way, could be ignored, collapsed etc. Quoted parts should be collapsed together. I don't know if you see it, but I like it!
This would save a lot of effort I need to extract the relevant portions of, for instance, mee too posts, side jokes, etc in a long thread. It would be similar to a LXR listing (http://lxr.linux.no/) or cvs view, There is, in fact, whre I got the idea.
BTW, a LXR would also be handy to have for our repositories, to enable view of temporal evolution of code, etc.
Regards,
Santiago
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