"I'm an old conservative it-industry-idiot"
Me too, but it doesn't stop me prefering forums to mailing lists.
If you are in IT surely you dont still see banner ads,
I run Firefox with noscript flash block and ad block and NEVER see
any ads. Cookies take care of all logins so I only login once.
DAve L
> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:32:30 +0200
> From: fol...@kabelsalat.ch
> To: xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Xcsoar-user] Configuration Screens / XCS User Experience Forum
>
> 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
>
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