Hi, to mention a major drawback of a forum IMHO: I can read a mailinglist offline. Fetch mails to my notebook once, read and answer while being offline and sending mails from outgoing folder as one batch late when online again.
With a forum I would have to open any unread thread beforehand, write my answer and leave the browser tab open to manually post later when online again. Therefore I prefer the mailing list for some usecases. As a second thing I think is a good thing that discussions can fork in several different directions - if done right. As long as it stays basically the same topic this is easy on mailinglists, while for switching the topic one is forced to decide between opening a new (disconnected) topic or staying below the old one, while a dual approach would be right (like starting a new thread while linking it to the initiating mail from the old one). At a Forum it's the same issue here, but easier to start a new thread and link to the old one than with mails. In an ideal world we would have one discussion platform that can be used by a mail client as well as by a web forum software. I don't know if anything like that exists, but basically it's the same concept, whether it's mail with reply-to headers or forum posts with some kind of a parent-post link. regards Peter Am 19.03.2015 um 16:36 schrieb Jan van Bekkum: > Correct, but the forums are easier to scan through and search, > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:26 PM Jean-Marc Liotier <j...@liotier.org > <mailto:j...@liotier.org>> wrote: > > On 19/03/2015 15:42, Jan van Bekkum wrote: > > Proposal 7 - use a forum instead of 4 mailing lists and a wiki (was > > proposed earlier). > > Then you'll have 4 sub-forums and a wiki. > > > _________________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org> > https://lists.openstreetmap.__org/listinfo/tagging > <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
