В 13:49 +0200 на 05.05.2012 (сб), [email protected] написа: > @ivaylo: Why such a harsh reaction ?
I got irritated by the "mailing lists are old, lets ditch them" attitude. My reply was not directed at you. Might have been a little strong. Text lack accurate intonation representation, so it might seem stronger than I intended. > I simply wanted to highlight that the current situation is less than optimal. I agree that it is not optimal, but again my response was not directed at you. > If the "forum" is another representation of the mailing list then it should > work the same way and present stuff the same way (e.g. Hyperlinks, Quoted > text and so on). If this does not work then the forum should be fixed or > dropped (if fixing is not possible). +1 > >No we wouldn't. > I dislike the we in this sentence. On such topic there is no "we" as everyone > > might have his preferred option. It was a response to "we would be fine without a mailing list". That is why the "we". > > >A web forum I have to go to and check regularly > This is simply not true and depends on the forum software used. You can > configure it to send you notifications on each topic you posted on a timely > base (instantly, each day, whatever). Those notification include often enough > > the message posting. I would even bet you can extend a forum that you simply > reply to a topic to send a mail. Yes, I'm aware of that, but this is still inconvenient in my opinion. I still have to go to the web, login and post. Forums just can't work by themselves and be convenient, they need helpers. In this example mail.
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