Look like an interesting development ( http://www.mail2forum.com/forums/index.php)
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 Paul Melis Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:44 PM To: osg users Subject: Re: [osg-users] osgForum Gordon Tomlinson wrote: > 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 ;) > Both approaches have their merits, seems like people have been thinking about ways of doing bidirectional message transfer between the two: http://www.mail2forum.com/forums/index.php Personally, I like the ease of sending a mail on a list over having to log in to a forum to post. Searching a forum is much easier, but archives like gmane are pretty decent these days. Paul > > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/
