> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002, TIM CONSTANTINE wrote: > > It seems to me that a Bulletin Board for communication would have > > some serious advantages over this mailing list: > As have already been pointed out the "advantages" are already > available for the mailing list.
Not all of the "advantages". If I subscribed to the lists today as a new subscriber, I couldn't reply to any message before today. This is what TIM meant by "jumping into conversations". I guess I could, if there was a publicized way to, ask the list server to forward me a specific message from some time in the past. Then I could browse through the archives, and collect messages to respond to, ask the server for them, and reply, but that seems like a bit more trouble than new users would be willing to go through. > If you started to use a differet system for communication then I > can point out one major disadvantage: > - some core developers will be missing Unless, as David suggested, the board and the lists are kept in sync. Of course, that would mean only plain-text messages on the board (or have the syncing software run each message through lynx before forwarding it on), but I guess that's a fairly small price to pay. > BTW, I find it a bit amusing that newcomers always are so quick to > suggest that we should abandon the mailing list. Do you really think > we would continue to use a mailing list if we didn't think it was a > good way to communciate? ;-) I like the mailing lists, myself. My only request would be to expose a news interface as well, so that Google Groups could index the list. The palm-dev-forum already does this, and I find it quite useful. (I like Google's search engine better than pretty much every other one I've found so far.) > Also, since I have all the message locally I can search in every mail > sent to our mailing lists since '98 without going online and > I wouldn't want to lose that possibility. If it was mirrored, you wouldn't. Later, Blake. _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
