Sorry, but I don't get why people can't delete emails on topics they aren't
interested in; do some people here feel the need to read all the spam they
get?
Michel
----- Original Message -----
From: "David kerber" <dcker...@verizon.net>
To: <users@tomcat.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: Why an email list, and not a forum?
On 9/24/2010 4:06 AM, Wesley Acheson wrote:
...
The point is once your involved in something, doing more than just
looking for answers a Mailing list is much better, it involves you
much more directly. I don't have to check 10 sites for my 10
subscribed mailing lists. The emails are just there all filtered into
their own labels (folders). So its probably better for a open source
project to use a mailing list.
+1. I actually prefer NNTP groups, but mailing lists are a close second.
As soon as you need to follow more than one group, e-mail is much more
efficient than a web-based forum.
The dev list has other special functions you just wouldn't see working
with a forum, such as having the commit logs mailed, and the bugs
mailed. This doesn't work well with forums as you'd either have one
massive topic or spam with several little topics.
Having said all that though I woudn't attempt to read these lists with
outlook/outlook express or thunderbird. That just wouldn't work for
me.
T-bird works fine once you set filters to organize the e-mails.
D
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