Agreed with Martin.

It is my Opinion, but it might not be a good answer for you.

If the problem space is having a searchable mailing list archive... I think
we already have that in place,  Right Brian ?



On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Martin DeMello <martindeme...@gmail.com>wrote:

> keeping up with email is a lot easier than pretty much everything else,
> though. the solution to keeping old messages around is mirroring the
> mailing list to a searchable archive, not moving to a forum en masse and
> sacrificing ease-of-conversation for ease-of-recall.
>
> martin
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Gaetan <gae...@xeberon.net> wrote:
>
>> Sorry but that is a pretty bad answer. You cannot tell people to change
>> their favorite email client just for rust-dev.
>>
>> You cannot do the same with you client, just because each one will have
>> to set its own set of rules to tag, ...
>>
>> Gmail is a pretty good client, but you have to remember the golden rules
>> of email: email is forgotten once it is read. And you cannot search on
>> emails you havent received...
>>
>> Self hosted forum is good, a good rust management in stack overflow is
>> much better. If you know better sites, why not making some experiment and
>> then vote for the better one.
>>
>> G.
>> Le 3 déc. 2013 21:32, "Thad Guidry" <thadgui...@gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>>>  Kevin is correct.
>>>
>>> Where the real issue is that of knowing the capabilities of your
>>> particular mail client and maximizing it to gain forum-like features.
>>>
>>> Many folks use or prefer an online mail client that offers threading,
>>> labels, archival search, etc.  Which are all the same features of a forum
>>> that is proposed.
>>>
>>> My suggestion would be instead of jumping to a forum... simply learn
>>> about or find a more full featured mail client if you can.
>>> If you cannot, then perhaps Gmane could benefit you in the same way.
>>>
>>> Users benefit from the developers list and vice-versa... splitting us
>>> apart would not be a wise choice.
>>> --
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