Luis Garrido wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:13 AM, david <[email protected]> wrote: >> But we have one. It's called an email list. This email list. > > To each usage its tool. > > A mailing list is not a good tool to deliver, archive and discuss > content. Any attachment is replicated to everyone in the user list and > can saturate mailboxes. Let's remember RG files can contain WAV data.
True. Wiki's better for that. > A wiki is not a good tool for discussion. Hmm, yes, it is. See the discussion pages in Wikipedia. They also automatically archive it. >> I hate web forums. They're clumsy and slow and I have to go to them, >> they don't come to me like an email list does. And they do need a lot of >> administration, or they rapidly become clogged spam-sewers. > > Spam happens in mailing lists too. There are things like spam filters, > and moderation can be delegated to enthusiast users. Spam is filtered very effectively by my mail client's built-in filtering. No other human has to do it. Keeping spam out of a forum requires someone to do it. Most automatic spam filtering I've seen in forums is pretty useless, mostly keeping out legitimate links. > But there is no accounting for taste, I guess. Including yours! ;-) -- David [email protected] authenticity, honesty, community ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
