> Hassan Siddiqui wrote:
> > I vote for a web-based forum - all you need is a web browser,
> > which you all no doubt have or you wouldn't have subscribed
> > to this forum in the first place!
>
I think a lot of people are in the same situation (only email enabled
internet connection), and I think that should be really unfair to restrict
the list to a web page... Anyway, to get the same level of functionnalities
that an email client provide, you should create a really good (and complex,
and slow) website... Indeed, you are totally free to use the email client you
want, and you are free to learn how to use it. Most of them include powerfull
thread followings and of course email filtering, that allow you to manage the
list the way you want. For example, if you don't use catalina but just tomcat
3.x, you can redirect all email about TC4 or catalina to the trash... If you
don't use Netscape Server, or Solaris, or IBM JDK, you can do the same...
Yes, it will take you 10 minutes to do it, but once it is made, everything is
far more confortable than a web based interface.
The solution that can be good for everybody, is to keep the mailing list, to
it people can subsribe if they want to receive all the mail, and a web
interface (not far from the mailing list archive interface) that allow you to
read the emails.
So if you don't want to receive all the emails, just go to the archives, read
them, and if you want to post a message, just send it to the mailing list (I
don't know if you can post if you are not subscribed, but if you can, there's
no problem anymore. If you cannot, opening the list to people that didn't
subscribe could be the solution).
Benoit
> I may have a web browser... But I'm somewhat restricted in trying to
> surf to websites... Our internet connection over here is also rather
> slow...
>
> I vote for the Mailing list...;-)
