On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 4:17 AM, jan iversen <jancasacon...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Sorry, it seemed my remark sparked quite some feelings, that was not my > intention ! > > But not having been on the list for very long, means that there a lot of > history I dont have, and the mailer didnt exactly like when I tried to get > all messages. During my research for a updated l10n process, I have often > heard "that has been discussed before", which makes me go search for old > mail. In a forum we would have more catagories than just one mailling list, > making it easier to find relevant old information. That was all that was in > my remark (getting history). > There is a point to that, usually mailing list are backed up on other services like gmame and nabbel, this are more web-friendly ui to find relevant email from the past. That is usually what I do to find conversations. I still dont have much experience with Markmail to be able to do quick searches, plus I think this is only there for the old ML. > > Jan. > > On 21 October 2012 09:50, Fernando Cassia <fcas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:47 PM, jan iversen <jancasacon...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > 3) +1, but I will never understand why it is a mailing list and not a > > > forum, where it is so much easier to look at history > > > > Oh please, not again... mailing lists have many advantages over web > forums: > > > > 1. Speed (the emails arrive automagically, are text-only -most of the > > time-), no waiting for forum web pages to load, no adverts, no > > footers, no colors, no graphical sig files, no animated gifs to look > > at, no delay to "log-in", messages just arrive to your mailbox > > 2. Easy archival (just set a rule and archive your list email to a > > given subfolder or a given GMail Label) > > 3. Reply speed (most of my on-line time is spent loking at the gmail > > inbox, when something of interest arrives -ie ooo-dev with some > > interesting subject line- I click and read it immediately). > > 4. Sense of community: it´s much easier to deal with troublemakers, > > spammers and trolls etc on a mailing list (just ban his email address) > > than on web forums. > > > > ...and that just are the most obvious ones off the top of my head on a > > Sunday at 4:50am local time... > > > > FC > > -- > > During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a > > revolutionary act > > - George Orwell > > > -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
