On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:39:06AM +0200, Oliver C. wrote:
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 19:03, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and converting
over to online/web-based forums?
This is a great idea!
I like forums and prefer them.
But you
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 05:37:15AM +, Martin Spott wrote:
This posting is written using 'telnet'. Cheers,
Dito. With mutt running on the server. Only got a
Win95 with 99MHz and 8MB here. Good enough for
putty.exe, but graphical browsers are a pain. And
java(script) would be a nogo. (Agreed,
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote:
Anway, I like the idea of having a dedicated online message
board for FlightGear. The primary reason why I like online
message board is that all the posts in a topic are grouped
under one thread and are sorted by dates, which is more
organized in my opinion.
This
I like forums very much.
I used to hate mailing lists untill I came here. They are not that bad but
as everyone said, they are not that easy to browse.
Question: would it be that hard to improve the web-based archive-reader? I
would like to have a kind of expandable tree view...
But I think
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:21:59 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I think a forum is a great idea. The biggest advantage I see over
most mailing lists is that a forum is searchable. I see too many
F/OSS projects with mailing lists that aren't searchable. Having a
On September 15, 2005 10:00 am, Andy Ross wrote:
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote:
Anway, I like the idea of having a dedicated online message
board for FlightGear. The primary reason why I like online
message board is that all the posts in a topic are grouped
under one thread and are sorted by
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:21:59 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I think a forum is a great idea. The biggest advantage I see over
most mailing lists is that a forum is searchable. I see too many
F/OSS projects with mailing lists that aren't searchable. Having a
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote:
Nope. I can sort mails by thread, date, and author fine. It's just that I
feel a message board is more organized. In anycase, it doesn't matter, as
majority of the developers object to the idea of switching to a message
board.
To my recognition most arguments
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 18:03, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and converting
over to online/web-based forums?
Personally, I very much prefer mailing lists. I can quite see the advantages
of web-based forums, but I'm not convinced they
While I'm not an active developer (just lurk on the list), I'd like to give my
opinion on this.
I think a forum is a great idea. The biggest advantage I see over most
mailing
lists is that a forum is searchable. I see too many F/OSS projects with
mailing lists that aren't searchable. Having
A J MacLeod wrote:
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and
converting over to online/web-based forums?
Personally, I very much prefer mailing lists. I can quite see the
advantages of web-based forums, but I'm not convinced they outweigh
the
AJ MacLeod wrote
Personally, I very much prefer mailing lists. I can quite see the
advantages
of web-based forums, but I'm not convinced they outweigh the
disadvantages.
For one thing, it's much easier to keep up with the mailing lists, as I
monitor my email through most of the day for
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:03:07PM -0500, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and converting
over to online/web-based forums?
Shudder. This would probably be the end of my participation.
I can't work with forums, and I don't want to.
- I'm
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 08:00:33PM +0200, Melchior FRANZ wrote:
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:03:07PM -0500, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
- I'm getting really sick of spam.
What's wrong with spam filters? e.g. bogofilter,
Or simpler: don't allow anyone who isn't subscribed
to post to the lists.
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Curtis L. Olson schrieb:
I have a question I'd like to toss out to the group for discussion/comment.
What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and converting
over to online/web-based forums?
I hate forums.
At a mailinglist I've
Melchior FRANZ wrote:
Or simpler: don't allow anyone who isn't subscribed
to post to the lists. There's still the AVSim forum
and the IRC channel for notorious non-subscribers.
I'd prefer an official forum on flightgear.org for
that, though. AVSim does in no way feel official.
(Is it
Christian Mayer wrote:
I hate forums.
At a mailinglist I've got nothing to do - they come to me.
At a forum I must think of querying it once in a while - I have to come
to them.
It's like the difference between polling and interrupts...
- I'm getting really sick of spam.
That's a
Sylvain Mazet wrote:
Hi,
I am also just playing with FG,
lurking on the lists
searching for info.
I prefer mailing lists,
but it would be really nice if the archives at flightgear were searchable.
They are searchable last I checked.
Curt.
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Curtis Olson
Hi,
I am also just playing with FG,
lurking on the lists
searching for info.
I prefer mailing lists,
but it would be really nice if the archives at flightgear were searchable.
Sylvain.
On 9/14/05, Christian Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Curtis L. Olson wrote:
I have a question I'd like to toss out to the group for discussion/comment.
What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and converting
over to online/web-based forums?
I think you'll lose an *awful* lot of input.
I'm really no fan of forums.
Mail gets
Andy Ross wrote:
A J MacLeod wrote:
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and
converting over to online/web-based forums?
Personally, I very much prefer mailing lists. I can quite see the
advantages of web-based forums, but I'm not
On Wednesday 14 Sep 2005 18:03, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
I have a question I'd like to toss out to the group for
discussion/comment.
What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and
converting over to online/web-based forums?
- People would only have to subscribe once and they
Vivian Meazza wrote:
AJ MacLeod wrote
Personally, I very much prefer mailing lists. I can quite see the
advantages
of web-based forums, but I'm not convinced they outweigh the
disadvantages.
For one thing, it's much easier to keep up with the mailing lists, as I
monitor my email through
Andy Ross wrote:
A J MacLeod wrote:
Personally, I very much prefer mailing lists. I can quite see the
advantages of web-based forums, but I'm not convinced they outweigh
the disadvantages.
Ditto. Reading threaded mail with Thunderbird vs. with PHPbb or the
like isn't even a fair
Erik Hofman wrote:
I'm for dumping every mail not from a list member instead.
We already do that.
The problem is with all the [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mail. These addresses can't be avoided and are a
huge spam attracter for the two flightgear co-list admins. But just to
I much prefer mailing lists. They are so accesible and flexibile. The
important content arrives (and I appreciate the effort of admins to
maintain this). I actually think that mailing lists work really well,
and it sounds like the problem is more down to the spam. Could we setup
an
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 19:03, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
I have a question I'd like to toss out to the group for discussion/comment.
What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and converting
over to online/web-based forums?
This is a great idea!
I like forums and prefer them.
Oliver C. wrote:
2. The Readably of a web based forum is better.
This is a joke, right? It must be all those giant, blinking, hot pink
600x200 signature GIFs that help you tell where the text content
is. :)
Heh, to each his own. Although I will point out that most of your
complaints have more
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 18:03, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
I have a question I'd like to toss out to the group for discussion/comment.
What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and converting
over to online/web-based forums?
I quite like the idea of forums at least for the
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 17:09 -0500, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
The problem is with all the [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mail. These addresses can't be avoided and are a
huge spam attracter for the two flightgear co-list admins. But just to
be clear, I'm not trying to solve a spam
Paul Kahler wrote:
This may be too late now unless the address changes. Get the email
address off the web pages. Just where do you think the spammers are
getting the address from? My ISP has some form of spam blocking, but I
receive about 1 spam every month or two. I think the reason for this
From: Curtis L. Olson
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(this is a general response to already quoted a few times thread :-))
Hi Curt,
PhpBB is one I've heard a lot about and have probably used, but not run. I
think it runs on Postgres and others.
The Ideal Forum software: It seems to me that the ideal forum
On September 14, 2005 01:03 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and converting
over to online/web-based forums?
I always wanted to ask the same question, but I have a believe that FlightGear
uses a mailing list for a reason, so I never ask.
From: Curtis L. Olson
Paul Kahler wrote:
This may be too late now unless the address changes. Get the email
address off the web pages. Just where do you think the spammers are
getting the address from? My ISP has some form of spam blocking, but I
receive about 1 spam every month or two.
Just my two cent
Oliver C. wrote:
2. The Readably of a web based forum is better.
I'd find it annoying that you have to start a graphical desktop plus a
graphical web browser just in order to read a few lines of _text_ !
The usability of web forums in a text browser like 'lynx' is
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