Paul Howarth wrote: > Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote: >> Paul Howarth wrote: >> >>> This mailing list is already available in forum format at: >>> http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=10 >>> >>> I much prefer mailing lists to forums personally, and if this list was >>> to become forum-only, I wouldn't be here. It's just too much hassle to >>> trawl through forums IMHO. >>> >>> Paul. >>> >> While I also prefer mailing list, I cannot deny the usefulness of web >> forums, especially when there's lots of traffic like in this list, which >> can lead to inbox or mail-box (as a whole) flooding... Even though in a >> mailing list you also choose what to read and to pass, just as in a >> forum, you also are left to clean your mail-box, which is not needed in >> the web-forum... For not-so-populated mailing lists like the ALSA-users >> one, I'd rather use my e-mail client... though for a list with the >> amount of traffic this one has... I'd rather use the web interface. > > I can certainly understand why many people would prefer to access this > list as a forum, but I'm not one of them. Having the option of both, as > at present, is the best way I think. > There is another option that no-one has mentioned yet, and that is to view the mailing list as a 'news' list through the gmane servers. I'm currently reading through this thread, and replying through 'KNode', so its obviously working. :) Just my 2p's worth Sharon. -- 12:30:39 up 1 day, 4:16, 2 users, load average: 1.08, 1.13, 1.20 A taste of linux http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/efever/index.html efever http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ Fedora Core 3, KDE 3.3.2-1.2.3, OpenOffice 1.1.4 Registered Linux user 334501
