Sylvain Hellegouarch wrote: >Personally I don't think the IP-list has enough volume to justify a >split and that would be detrimental. > >If people don't want to subscribe to a list for fear of spam it's fair >enough but the list has been working just fine until now and I >personally would not pay attention to a forum per se myself. > >
I agree. I abhor forums and prefer mailing lists. Michael Foord http://www.manning.com/foord >Anyway, just my 2 cents. >- Sylvain > >Dino Viehland wrote: > > >>Just thought I'd collect some opinions here. Internally we discussed >>this sometime ago but never made any decisions and haven't done much >>to push this forward... On CodePlex we have the ability to enable a >>discussion forum (which would look like >>http://www.codeplex.com/CodePlex/Thread/List.aspx) where people could >>post questions, discuss issues, etc... CodePlex is heavily >>RSS-enabled so you could also get RSS feeds to track the discussions >>in RSS form. There've been some requests on the main page >>(http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython) and at least one person who >>didn't like the mailing list. >> >>But obviously we don't want to get rid of the mailing list format - >>personally it's the format I prefer (and find the least overhead for >>replying). But I've started to use RSS a lot recently so I can >>certainly see the appeal there, and maybe others here do as well... >>Overall my own personal worry is that we'll be fragmenting the two >>discussions and actually hinder some discussion. >> >>So, thoughts? Should we: >> Very easy: >> just open the flood gates on the discussions and everyone can >>go where they want - let the search engines sort it out! >> vs Requires some work: >> open up the RSS feed but setup some thread-propagation-bot? >> open up the RSS feed but send out regular digests? >> vs the unknown: >> something completely different? >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Users mailing list >>Users@lists.ironpython.com >>http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >Users mailing list >Users@lists.ironpython.com >http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
