Indeed, it would be like users@, but consider: 1) In what way can you order threads in a mailing list? If we had a web-based forum we could easilly have stuff related to hardware in one forum, multimedia in another, pkgsrc in another etc., we could even have a forum for non df-related stuff. Sure, you can make more mailing lists, but: 2) Assume that DF is going to gain much bigger popularity, im not talking about hundreds of users like now, im talking about thousands. Can you imagine users@ with 10x (or even more) people posting one over another all different stuff? Thats confusion! You arent going to attract people to DF with a mailing list like that. 3) When users want to ask questions to another users, whats easier than sign up, log in and make a new thread and discuss whatever you wish. Sorry, but a mailing list might have been a hype of 15 years ago when people had a 14.4kbps dialup connection to the internet or even less, but today? Sure its easy to open up evolution or mutt and send mails to users@, but is this attractive to new users coming over over from Linux and *BSD? The guy that wrote the review of DF 1.4 on Distrowatch was correct when he said that DF is for hardcore geeks, because only geeks like us would bother mailing questions to users@ today in 2006 when pretty much every project that is trying to make it somewhere far has a proper forum that suits the age (and for a reason!)
Dont take this as bashing please, i really _like_ what you guys are doing in the software section. Im just trying to help out. petr
