Re: [talk-au] A modest proposal fo OSM mailing list reform

2011-05-21 Thread Sam Couter
John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 May 2011 13:52, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: Forums (IMO) are much superior to mailing lists for one simple reason If the forum software is a threaded one then it is really easy to avoid reading any drivel from the trolls.

Re: [talk-au] A modest proposal fo OSM mailing list reform

2011-05-21 Thread John Smith
On 21 May 2011 16:08, Sam Couter s...@couter.id.au wrote: John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 May 2011 13:52, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: Forums (IMO) are much superior to mailing lists for one simple reason If the forum software is a threaded one then it is

Re: [talk-au] A modest proposal fo OSM mailing list reform

2011-05-21 Thread John Smith
On 21 May 2011 16:11, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: If people want to use a forum like interface, gmane.org does that I believe. Actually gmane.org does a few different options, include a blog like interface... http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.region.au

Re: [talk-au] A modest proposal fo OSM mailing list reform

2011-05-21 Thread Chris Barham
On 21 May 2011 16:11, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: If people want to use a forum like interface, gmane.org does that I believe. I've used MarkMail for lists, and like it: http://goo.gl/Sv27p which is this less friendly/longer URL:

[talk-au] A modest proposal fo OSM mailing list reform

2011-05-20 Thread Nick Hocking
Forums (IMO) are much superior to mailing lists for one simple reason If the forum software is a threaded one then it is really easy to avoid reading any drivel from the trolls. You just ignore the whole thread if the troll starts it or just ignore any parts of an otherwise useful thread if

Re: [talk-au] A modest proposal fo OSM mailing list reform

2011-05-20 Thread John Smith
On 21 May 2011 13:52, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: Forums (IMO) are much superior to mailing lists for one simple reason If the forum software is a threaded one then it is really easy to avoid reading any drivel from the trolls. You just ignore the whole thread if the troll