On 4 May 2011 20:00, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2011-05-04, msp430 <microcontrollerfr...@gmx.at> wrote: >> hello mspgcc community, >> There is a mspgcc forum at: http://develissimo.com/forum/ >> We want it to make it the "official mspgcc forum"! > This mailing list is the official mspgcc forum.
> Web forums are a huge waste of time. I monitor a dozen or two > mailing lists in only a few minutes per day. I use slrn pointed > news.gname.org, but there are other equally efficient methods. Were I > to attempt to do the same via "web forums" it would waste hours of my > time. >> Hopefully you will join us! > Not a snowball's chance in a CAT scanner. >> ps: lets move from old style mailing lists to new 2011 Forums. > Let's not. Mailing lists are brilliant for this sort of thing. We > forums are screen-wasting time-sinks designed primarily to sell ads. Indeed. Forums should have been buried in 1999 along with perl cgi's and leaking form processors. They're worse than useless. One point that I'd like to add is that besides being spam-funded, a website is run by a private entity and when (not if) it goes down, it'll take down all the data with it. All the things that "forums" leech from communities, they keep for themselves. Of course mailing lists are still run by listbots and the truly distibuted Usenet never solved the spam and cross-posting vandal problems but the message format is still standardized, probably the longest and best supported in the history of the Internet and can be easily archived and searched by anyone. A good repository such as a wiki for 430 information would be welcome IMO. The TI one most likely won't be edited easily enough as it is a front for the company. There's also no discipline on it and the articles are full of ridiculous comment chains and there doesn't seem to be much content. -- I appear to be temporarily using gmail's horrible interface. I apologise for any failure in my part in trying to make it do the right thing with post formatting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Mspgcc-users mailing list Mspgcc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mspgcc-users
