On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 04:46:58PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * houghi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-26-06 08:49]:
> > With a mailinglist I have to subscribe, mail the question, read another
> > few hundred things I am not intersted in and after reading my answer
> > figure out how to unsibscribe, otherwise my mailbox is a complete mess.
>
> Not if you use a capable client. You read the threads that interest
> you and delete the others. No mess, no fuss, and the reason that
> thread hijacking is frowned upon.
>
> key: use a capable client, properly.
key: knowledge, something that the avarage newbie does not yet have.
So you subscribe, get 200+ emails a day, delete them except for the 5 or
so you like and then for the next 2 years you keep downloading and
deleting them? Why?
Anyway. We are not here trying to convince each other what is better or
how people should do things. People like webforums as we can see by their
success. If the openSUSE mailinglists are any reference (and they are not)
people like the webforums more then they do mailinglists for whatever
reason.
Linux and especially OSS is about choice, so let's give the people the
choice.
houghi
--
He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
-- Jonathon Swift
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