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He's clearly using Nabble, and thinks that's the primary interface for the list ... So, Peter, if you think Nabble sucks, provide an alternative. But don't mistake Nabble as being the primary interface for the list. The primary interface for the list is: the list itself (ie. delivery to your email address). As for the side debate about lists vs forums ... each has its place. Forums can be better, IMO, for lighter involvement in the overall flood of messages, for focusing on a given topic area, or for casual browsing. But they're lousy for trying to be involved in the ENTIRE presence of the message flow. They're also lousy in terms of "choice" -- email lets you pick your client, forums don't. Personally, when I'm so lightly involved in a message stream that I don't want to be subscribed to the entire list, I prefer to use the RSS interface to a forum (or, an RSS feed into a forum). Especially if the RSS feed only posts 1 message per topic (the lead in message of the topic). Then I can skim the topics, pick which ones to dive in to or not. Then I can subscribe to updates of a given topic that I like (and read them in the forum, or maybe in my email if they send you 1 message per update, instead of 1 message per day), or not. If I don't, then I _never_ see that topic again. And either way, I don't store a flood of messages in my account (not before I read them, not after I read them). I would agree with Peter on the front that I've never seen a good combination mailing list and forum. Forums tend to have lousy email interfaces, and mailing lists tend to have lousy forum clones. My brief exposure to Nabble doesn't alter my impression of that. But that's probably because forums and lists have VERY different organizations. They both have "topics" (subject threads on a mailing list), but aside from that, lists tend to have no higher level of organization than that ... and forums tend to have multiple topic streams. But that doesn't mean that the SA community is lacking just because Nabble sucks. It means Peter is being lazy about his involvement in the community, avoiding using it directly by using it via a filtered interface (Nabble), and then complaining about it. Though ... it'd be nice if there was a direct RSS feed for the users list. Hopefully Nabble isn't my only choice for an RSS feed :-} (esp. since it posts 1 RSS message per email message, and only appears to do periodic RSS updates, not more live/continuous ones) Any help/suggestions on better RSS feeds for this list would be appreciated :-)
