Ronan, You have time to read emails but not to check a feed for new entries? I happen to use the feed provided by Yahoo for this list and go to the web page occasionally when bored, I hardly ever interface through email.
The differences between the Yahoo-provided web interface and a full-fledged forum are actually pretty minimal.. Jeff --- In [email protected], Ronan Oger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We don't have a 'proper' web forum because this is a mailing list. > For a web forum, go to svg café. Many People on this mailing list like it that > way. > > Web forums require readers to be online to view/reply to postings. They > further require that participants visit the pages actively rather than > passively recieve queries by email. > > I am far too busy to do this, and would therefore not participate in the > discussion in this group. Also, web forums are expensive to operate due to > their much larger bandwidth than email and therefore have obtrusive > advertising using increasingly taxing technologies, and I simply do not > desire to be buried in advertising junk. With my text-only emails option on > yahoo groups, I can easily parse out the junk and concentrate on the content. > > We could go and have a very long thread about the relative pros and cons of > web forums and mailing lists, but the fact remains: this is a mailing list > for which yahoo groups includes a web interface. You are welcome to go > interact in a web forum, but don't count on me to answer questions there as I > do not have time. > > For a historical perspective, you may look up web forum in the 2002 or 2003 > archive for the group. The idea was extensively discussed back then. > > Ronan > > On Wednesday 19 April 2006 08:17, Richard Gnyla wrote: > > I agree, for some reason I had to also resubscribe as well and pretty > > much this Yahoo Forum pi**ess me off as I now have had to subscribe 3 > > times in about 2 years or so. > > > > What I cant understand is why we dont have a proper forum rather then > > this ancient yahoo group thing, I reckon it puts people off. I remember > > a svgcafe.com forum that happened and was better laid out than this one > > but didnt seem to gain much interest as no one on this forum decided to > > move over apart from a few of us > > > > Maybe its a cost issue to put up and run such a thing - the yahoo one is > > free i presume. > > > > But I agree with Bill - it's more likely putting people off joining > > > > Richard > > > > Bill Thoen wrote: > > > Robin Berjon wrote: > > >> I don't know if there are other fora for discussion, I know I tend to > > >> go to the #svg IRC channel on irc.freenode.net since a lot of > > >> interesting discussions and help-giving tends to take place IMHO. > > > > > > One other thing... when I tried to re-up my subscription here on the SVG > > > developers forum, I found Yahoo's nosy (required) questionaire really, > > > really annoying. Their privacy policy is even worse (basically it says > > > they can do whatever they like with the info they gather from > > > subscribers.) Since I have cookies turned off, that was a hassle too. I > > > tried several times to get re-subscribed, and each time I hadn't done > > > something right, it forced me to re-enter ALL the info again. So I > > > filled out a bunch of lies, got signed up, but they managed to > > > cross-reference my old info using my e-mail address anyway (even though > > > since I had forgotten my old password *I* couldn't use it!) > > > > > > Because of Yahoo, I came within an ace of not bothering to re-join this > > > forum again. If I hadn't known it was good from my past expeienmce a > > > couple of years ago, I definitely wouldn't have joined because of > > > Yahoo's policies. If somebody sets up an alternative SVG discussion > > > forum using something like GNU mailman and doesn't require a lot of > > > marketing demograpohics information, I'd be there like a shot and would > > > never go back to a Yahoo forum again. I'm sure Yahoo's policy has turned > > > others off from checking this group out; especially these days now that > > > we all know the questionable uses to which concentrated information > > > harvesting is put. > > > > > > - Bill Thoen > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- > > > To unsubscribe send a message to: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- > > > visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my > > > membership" ---- > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > -- > Ronan Oger > Director > RO IT Systems GmbH > ...Building Web2.0 with SVG since 2001 > > http://www.roitsystems.com > ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
