In the light of various contributions regarding this thread, I would like to add to my last post on this subject.
Several people have requested to close down the forums or stop development discussions from taking place there. I do not agree mailing lists are easy to follow when important discussions on trends and strategies are involved. With the forums I can see the whole thread of discussion on a subject within one page, with posts indented to show which message is being replied to. If someone makes a mistake or forgets something, they can easily append a message to the original. There is little need for quoting from the previous message as the whole text is visible above. I find it ironic that people who spend their life developing software for presentation of information on the web, scoff at the use of such software and ignore its advantages. I am not saying that forums are perfect but they are much easier to use for reading the information. Mailing lists are OK if something simple is being queried or an announcement is made. But if you want to refer back to anything important it is not easy to find, even if you can search the archive. The big issue is lack of threading: all the children are displayed as having only one parent. I am glad others agree with me on GeoCrawler's deficiencies. Now that suggestions have been made to switch to another mail archive, why not explore a switch to NNTP with a mailing list mirror and an web mirror. Fred Toussi _______________________________________________ hsqldb-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hsqldb-developers
