On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 21:48 +1030, Tim wrote: > Mike McCarty: > > >> This has been proposed more than once here; apparently this is > >> not something the list manager(s) is(are) willing to do. > > > Craig White: > > > No - they would rather this all move over to forums instead > > Ugh, I hope not. Web forums are a monumental timewaster, and become > totally impractical if you're hoping to stay abreast of events on many > different things. I'm on about a dozen different mailing lists, I > couldn't manage that, at all, if they were web forums. > > If anyone was considering a change, it should be to usenet. It's the > ideal mechanism for mass messages. You've got a plethora of on-line and > off-line clients with filtering features that just isn't doable with a > web forum. Not to mention that, with usenet, there's no need to expose > an e-mail address to subject you to spam. ---- list owner's commentary on subject... https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-November/msg02632.html Craig
