I've never used a message board which I could search without Google's help, either. ArsTechnica's search was chronically broken for like a decade, for example. :D
Kevin On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Brian Anderson <bander...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 12/03/2013 02:22 PM, Thad Guidry wrote: > > 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 ? > > > I actually don't know how to search the rust-dev archives without Google's > help... > > > > > > > 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. >>>> -- >>>> -Thad >>>> +ThadGuidry >>>> Thad on LinkedIn >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Rust-dev mailing list >>>> Rust-dev@mozilla.org >>>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Rust-dev mailing list >>> Rust-dev@mozilla.org >>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev >>> >> > > > > -- > -Thad > +ThadGuidry > Thad on LinkedIn > > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > Rust-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > Rust-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
