On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
I still don't get why are Web forums so dreaded, but that's just me... I haven't seen a *single* reason why not to make it so...
It's a control issue... When you have a few thousand messages a day to parse you're before off doing it in the client of your on choosing, with your own filtering and your onw tools that with a web-interface which not matter how rich and well intentioned is just another bulliten-board interface. In my case the combo of procmail - spamassassin - duplicate filtering- pgp envelope - pine. allows me to keep track of and partcipate in a heck of a lot more mailing lists than just this one. it isn't even the highest volume one if you can believe that. if it were a web forum I'd probably dredge it with google but I certainly wouldn't keep up with it.
joelja
Unless, of course you still want to recieve 500+ e-mail messages if you are away of your computer for a day or two and could not cancel mail delivery temporarily (if you don't get the digest, of course). To each their own, I just don't get why people don't like the web forums idea... Maybe a private NTTP server would be more suitable for this, where Red Hat could even set the caducity of messages. You still need a helper application to read the messages like Evolution, Thunderbird or whatever, and still avoid having *your* inbox flooded.
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