So far I've read two replies to my post regarding forums and mailing list.
Martin Poeschl wrote: >>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!! a) I did say that for urgent stuff and announcements we use the mailing list. You don't have to check the forum several times a day as it should only contain "important discussions on trends and strategies" b) You can "monitor" the forums, that is, get a copy of the messages by email. I said with mailing lists: "The big issue is lack of threading: all the children are displayed as having only one parent". This is not strictly true, sometimes the mail client (Outlook Express 5) displays part of the tree correctly but not all of it. So the branches are cut up at arbitrary places and stuck to the top level message, which causes the confusion. I agree the web form is a problem because of its limited editing capability, but all of us can use our favourite editor to compose forum message and paste into the web form. Fred Toussi _______________________________________________ hsqldb-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hsqldb-developers
