fredt wrote: > 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.
if you are interessted in one project a forum may be great .. many of the people here are working on many projects .. if you send a mail i get it within seconds .. no need to go to the forum 5 times a day to see if ther are any new postings i'm subscribed to 15+ mailing lists .. it would take hours to check 15 forums 5 times a day the response time on mailing lists is much lower than on forums!! > 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 don't ignore the few advantages .. but you should not ignore the disadvantages!! ;-) > I am not saying that forums are perfect but they are much easier to use for > reading the information. if you subscribe to the list all the mails are in your mailbox .. that's really easy, isn't it? > > 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. maybe you should switch to another mailclient where you can group your mails ;-) > > 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 martin _______________________________________________ hsqldb-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hsqldb-developers
