Personally I prefer a forum and think they are 1 trillion quillion times better than mailing lists, for me it much easier and more accurate to find past discussions in context than trying to search mail list archives
But thats me ;) As to concerns about spam from forums I have never gotten spam from my forums (www.3dscenegraph.com) or others This subject has been brought up before and the mailing list was prefered by many and more inportantly prefered by Robert and Don so I don't think it will change Best Regards Gordon __________________________________________________________ Gordon Tomlinson Email : gordon.tomlinson @ overwatch.com YIM/AIM: Gordon3dBrit MSN IM : Gordon3dBrit @ 3dSceneGraph.com __________________________________________________________ "Self defence is not a function of learning tricks but is a function of how quickly and intensely one can arouse one's instinct for survival" - Master Tambo Tetsura -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Sokolowsky Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:33 AM To: osg users Subject: Re: [osg-users] osgForum 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. -- ____ __ Eric Sokolowsky (GST) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / __/__/_/__ Visualization Programmer Scientific Visualization Studio / __/ _/ / _/ 301.286.3751 Mailstop 610.3 Bldg 28 Rm E102 /___/_//_/__/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greenbelt, MD 20771 _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/ _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/
