On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 10:06 +0100, ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto) wrote:
> 
> thanks for reporting on mailing list! I never read forums ...

<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>

In any case, I have bothered the PunBB developers about this [lack of]
feature.

b.

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