Hi Martin,
> The fact remains that I prefer mailing lists to web forums. Actually I > prefer USENET to either, but that's another story... you are welcome to prefer mailing lists to web forum - that's your choise. Maybe many other users will do the same. But on the other hand, for example I prefer web forums. And maybe many other users will do the same. Nobody is forcing you to use the forum - I suppose that mailing-list will be still working as well... > Can I post to it via e-mail? No, you can't. > Will it notify me of new topics as well? Yes, if you subsribe to that particular forum. You can subscribe to all "top-most" forums, and you will be notified about all new content on the whole forum. > IOW, would I need to use a browser? It depends... :) 1) NO - if you subscribe to the whole forum, you will be able to read all the new content without the browser (all notification will be send to you via email) 2) NO - you can subscribe the ATOM feeds from the forum, so you can read content via your favorite RSS/ATOM reader - so you don't need browser either 3) YES - when you will want to add some reply, then YES, you will need the browser. Roman. On Sun, 22 May 2011 17:54:57 +0200, Martin Gregorie <mar...@gregorie.org> wrote: > Hi Roman, > >> > ... for their inability to notify >> > users of new postings and the horrible clunkiness of having to scan them >> > to find additions to threads, >> > That's been my experience of the forums I've tried so far. Generally > speaking I've found they are slower to use, even on a fast broadband > connection, than either e-mail or USENET. > > The fact remains that I prefer mailing lists to web forums. Actually I > prefer USENET to either, but that's another story... > >> that's not particularly true - you can subscribe to some topics (which >> you are interested in) and you will be notified about each new post in >> that thread. >> > Can I post to it via e-mail? Will it notify me of new topics as well? > IOW, would I need to use a browser? If it will do all that I'd be happy > to use it because its effectively a mail list anyway. > >> But we need to tweek a lot of details of our new forum (especially the >> user-rights), so please be a little patient and give us a feedback, so >> we can tune the forum "as you wish" :) >> > Sure. I'm pleased to see you're paying attention to access rights since > IME not doing that guarantees that spammers will use it. > > > Martin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
