On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:51:16AM +1000, Scott Penrose wrote: > No unfortunately. Well it is really up to the individual forum software. Which is exactly the issue.
I currently follow 17(!) mailinglists. I don't need to do go and visit each webpage and login to see what happens to the project. Its instant, and even available offline. E-mail notification is not really an option, because that kind of defeats the purpose. Rss can only read not post, and is again only an intermediate step. Computers where made so they do idiotic repetitive tasks for you, automatically and efficiently. Visiting 20 forums daily is a waste of time / Datatraffic. Additionally a forum is a big hassle administration wise. Upgrades not guranteed to work, switching between software is almost impossible without data-loss, or spending a lot of time writing your own parser which extracts the stuff from the database and converts it to the new format. In short: webforums are a terribly shortsighted thing. Then again maybe I'm an old conservative it-industry-idiot that just has seen/and suffered too many bad solutions implemented in his lifetime. I know people of today like "shiny" interfaces. They find it easier to subscribe to each forum, confirm e-mail address, answer captchas, scroll through pages and pages of banners and "me too" "lol" + "rofl". Than to subscribe to an ml and create a sorting rule into a seperate folder. Ok, I'll stop now. Please don't take it personal. > The problem is, how in email do you create a new topic. You write a mail to xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net without it being a reply to an existing topic. That creates a new thread aka. topic. Plus with a nice e-mail client for example mutt,thunderbird,evolution things appear threaded [1] just like topics on a forum. You can even mark threads as interesting or mark them collectively as read. > Plus forums tend to have higher security than an email list, so they don't > trust just the from address. Thats what pgp and s/mime is for. :) Cheers, - Folken [1] http://www.karan.org/stuff/tbird-threading.jpeg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
