On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Russel Winder <rus...@winder.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 16:48 +0100, Luke Daley wrote: > […] > > According to registration/subscription numbers, such people are in the > clear minority. > > Now that is pure sophistry! > > In a situation where everyone is told "use the forum or get no > response", it is hardly surprising the forum has the majority of users. > Those who like or can just about tolerate forums use them, the rest of > us fade away from the activity and are no longer counted. But I am still > an active advocate for Gradle despite that. > > It remains a major faux pas of the forum provider that they are > technically unable to support a proper email interface. If they are the > bleeding edge then the NNTP interfaces of 20 years ago (still in use > today cf. the D community) remain the superior mechanism: forum and > email all in the same system. But then it is not shiny and new and > cloudy, so I guess it is beneath the horizon for the cool hipsters. > I would also love to have a proper email interface as part of the forum and I think all of us would like to have this. Let's see what we can up with in the future. Hans > > -- > Russel. > > ============================================================================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: > sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > >
