On 15.03.2006, at 10:10, Thomas Dudziak wrote:

On 3/14/06, Torsten Curdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

...regarding the forums - naaaaa. What does that help?

Judging from myself, users don't like to have to subscribe to mailing
lists, especially when they don't need the list on a daily basis. E.g.
I would hate to get every question and answer in the Spring forums as
mail. I'd much rather check the forums every once in a while.

Use Gmane ;)

I am too lazy to always go and check forums.
With the tagging approach you would only have to
really subscribe once. ...and as I said - having feeds would be awesome.


I hate the fact I always have to subscribe to forums and
never liked the interfaces.

You misunderstood: Patrick told me that the 'special' feature of the
system that they use at OpenQA is that it can be used both as a
mailing list (e.g. for the developers) and a forum (for the users if
you want). Therefore, you'd register at a mailing list just as before
and have nothing to do at all with the forum-view, but users could
instead use the forum (and thus won't get all the - for them - noise).
And the system automatically maps between the mailing list and the
forum.

I think what you are basically saying is you want a poll
not a push service. IMO feeds are much better for that
than a forum. But of course you could combine all these
things.

cheers
--
Torsten

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