On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 11:19:13 -0600, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote: > On Oct 9, 2018, at 7:48 AM, Scott Robison <sc...@casaderobison.com> wrote: >> >> Isn't Gmane a web forum style interface to email lists? > > Gmane also provides NNTP access. I suspect the anti-forum types are > using Usenet news readers to follow such lists.
That's precisely what Gmane was always for. I suppose I must be an "anti-forum type" even though I have never used Gmane, but it does rather sound as though you are applying a somewhat perjorative label here. > > Gmane is part of the problem that lead to the creation of the Fossil > forum feature. Viz., it enables spammers, by design: > > http://gmane.org/about/ I don't see that page saying what you claim it says. > The arguments about mailing lists vs forums have all been had. Not in my hearing :-) > The software's been written ... So I've joined the Fossil forum, and I get each post as an email and they seem to thread properly, but of course I can't post by email, and if I wanted to reply in context (like this very email) I would have to construct it manually and paste it into the forum. Even just reading, some of the forum emails are meaningless because there is no context. I know, I could follow the link to the forum to see the context - and then come back, and then go to the forum for a different context ... It's all too much trouble for someone with a lot of mailing list subscriptions, there isn't enough time in the day, it's a lot easier to keep a finger on the pulse without reading everything in mailing lists than it is with forums. I suppose all that amounts to a somewhat blurry feature request ;-) Eric -- ms fnd in a lbry _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
