People might think that nothing will change if we move to a forum; Yet there is a great difference between a letter (though its email, not paper) and a forum post; Letters are usually more formal, more tidy, without spam and trolling; A forum post and a forum itself is completely different media, and people have a different attitude to forum posts then they do to letters; Letters resemble real-world communication more closely, in a way that they provide a link between two people, not 'forum members', but real people; Its quite ingenious when you think about this: stationary phones are used to connect buildings together (chain of command, etc), letters (and mobile phones) are used to connect people, no matter where they are; Internet and forums connect people, no matter who they are, even strangers can talk, given that the subject is interesting to both parties; Mailing lists are the last defense of the web, where one can converse to people he formally knows, about things they are formally involved in;
As for keeping email accounts clean and compact - i suggest one can write a nice script to delete unneeded things; 2011/10/18 Danny Staten <danny_sta...@hotmail.com> > I for one would love a forum, and disagree about it being the same as an > email list. I would love to not see 40+ emails in my inbox every day from > this mailing list, but I do find the available resource handy to have when I > need it. A forum would allow us to be more active because we can quickly > and easily ask questions and follow the conversation rather than having to > scan through a myriad of other emails, or try and follow the reply chain > when a flood comes in. It would also allow us to keep our inboxes a lot > cleaner and clutter free which would be very very nice. > > -----Original Message----- From: Frank Missel > Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 6:35 AM > To: 'Teg' ; 'General Discussion of SQLite Database' > Subject: Re: [sqlite] How about a proper forum rather than an e-mail list > > > Hi Teg, > > I love forums and consider them far superior to email if only because it's >> easier to follow a topic with less quoting needed. The downside is that >> someone has to manage the forum. I've managed a forum for the past 10 >> years and there's a daily spam cleanup process and constant attacks and >> required upgrades. You have to set the tone and be pretty ruthless about >> flaming too. >> >> I'd like to see a forum. I just wouldn't want to manage it. >> > > Okay, but if the posting is by members only would it not be the same as the > e-mail-lists. > I don't see a lot of spam in the e-mail-list, so either it also monitored > by > someone or the fact that it can only be accessed by members makes for a > well > behaved list which would be the same for the forum. > > /Frank > > ______________________________**_________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-**users<http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users> > ______________________________**_________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-**users<http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users> > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
