On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Schmidt, Richard, SDGE1 wrote:
Soo, much mails coming over the list... why not creating a forum
instead?!
phpBB for example is easy to maintain, lets you several subforums and
subscribe to interesting threads.
This question gets asked every once in a while. Perhaps we should make it
a FAQ.
There are those of us on the mailing list (obviously not everybody) who
prefer mail because it provides several benefits:
1. Every message on the list is received. I don't respond to every question,
but it's nice to see what's going on, and if there is a question that I
do know an answer to, it's much easier to reply in an email than to have
to go to a forum. I believe that people are served less ably with a forum,
as questions are more easily ignored.
2. Messages appear automatically, and quickly. With a forum, you have to
go to the web page and trawl through a clicky-pointy GUI mess. I use pine
for my email client, because it is strictly keyboard-based and fast.
There are probably other reasons not to go to a forum. I would not be as
active in the OSG community if there was just a forum rather than an email
list. It also doesn't make sense to have both because that's just an
unnecessary division of resources. Yes, there are a lot of messages on
this list, and when I get back after having been out of the office for
a few days it is rather daunting to go through 300+ emails, but I think
the benefits outweigh the burdens. I'm glad that the OSG community is
so active and helpful, and I'm happy to be a part of it.
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