On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:53:13AM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 10:06 +0100, ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto) wrote: > > > > thanks for reporting on mailing list! I never read forums ...
me neither > > <soapbox> > Me neither. In contrast to e-mail, they are an asinine way to > communicate. Having to "poll" (i,e, go to a webpage and check to see if > there are any replies to your messages) is just silly. If I had to do > that for every mailing list I am on I'd spend all day checking webpages > just in case somebody has replied to me. > > And before somebody tells me I can get an e-mail when somebody replies > to me on a forum, that's like having the postman come to my door and > tell me that there is mail at the post office for me to go pick up > instead of him just bringing it with him. > > If people really want pretty little web-pages with silly little 20x4 > boxes to type in to communicate with, I wish somebody would come up with > a forums<->email (i.e. two way -- I get forum posts in e-mail and I can > post to forums via e-mail) gateway so that busy old codgers like me can > participate without having to waste most of their day polling web pages. > </soapbox> SOOOOO TRUE > > In any case, I have bothered the PunBB developers about this [lack of] > feature. cool cheers --Jan > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
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