On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:49:15 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > I dislike the thought of having to monitor multiple forums.
Well, it's not like non-forumers would be banned or anything :) > Worse still, if a particular web forum goes offline, all its > content is lost; not so for mailing lists, which are archived > in multiple locations and so are much more reliable and long-lived. If you mean archived in peoples inboxes, then I'd argue that this is really not an archive at all. I don't remember ever seeing a mailing list archive that got lost being restored from inboxes. If you mean backups in general, nothing stops people backing up the databases. > "Some people prefer web forums" is not sufficient evidence. It's hard to prove a negative like that. Obviously _some_ people post to wine-users, but judging from other projects I'd expect there to be a lot of others who don't, simply because they're not comfortable with mailing lists as an interface. The amount of traffic experienced by sites like ubuntuforums.org vs their -user lists is a fairly compelling piece of evidence, I'd say. thanks -mike
