On 10/3/06, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The closest thing to profane language I saw in the thread was one
instance of the word "suck" in one message, so I don't think they were
"just profane" (so it's not as if their only problem with a moderated
forum would be that they couldn't use profane language, but presumably
that's not what you were implying).
I guess when reading it last night it looked more vulgar to me.
I think at least some posters against the forum had good reasons for
disliking it:
http://ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200605/msg00195.html
Those reasons acctually better fit a mailing list that gives you a search option defacto.
Here is a reason for a mailing list.
That it is more likely that someone will read your question.
"Not to be a wet blanket for your idea, but there are things that work
well on discussion forums (when people have time to use a browser and
keep checking back or configure it to email them for replies to their
posts). I don't happen to think that a high-volume list is one of them."
Most forums do that defacto
Absent some response-notification scheme such as the one Slashdot has,
where you get e-mail notifying you that somebody's replied to you,
that'd cause a problem for many users - polling a forum can be a pain.
I really see no difference to email I click on a link just as if I read my email. The only real difference would be moderated spam deletion and the deletion of things that may be vulgar and didn't hit the filter. Instead of people setting up individual filters. I really don't care but "suck" isn't a reason that is an opinion. And it is just personal preferance.
http://ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200605/msg00200.html
"No, they are not. Get a good mail client. I handle a couple of hundred
mails a day. How I handle that much mail? Well my client supports
sorting, scoring and threading so it's no big problem. If I'm not
interested in a discussion I just press one key and it's marked as
read. If I don't want to read about a specific topic I just hit a couple
of keys and I'll never read it a again. I've never seen this features in
a web based forum."
That would be a good idea for a forum individual prefferences on what to ignore. Also maybe some sort of grouping of topics like a similar topic frame hmm.
gmail supports quite a bit of options and I could also use it through any mail client I desire I really don't care infact I recently switched from yahoo to gmail and I like gmails defacto web interface a lot so far.
> You can also edit what you typed in a good forum and try to make
> better before someone reads it.
You can do that before sending a mail message, too. Or do you mean you
can *retroactively* edit one of your postings?
retroactive like in
fedoraforum.org
you can edit your own postings at anytime unless it is locked by a moderator.
fix words so that it is less irritating for other readers. I make a lot of grammatic mistakes and reading what i write can be difficult I can't always catch it before I type the send button.
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I liked the idea of starting your own forum like someone else said but personally I don't care enough at this moment. Maybe if I have some time. I might want to to help improve php code for forum software.
Note: I have no problem with the mailing list.
Some of the projects I'm subscribed to have both and more. The wiki is good also. It is also sort of like a forum.
Oh I just have one other reason for mailing lists. As I tried going to
wireshark.org the sight was slow mailing list only have that proplem when you go through the archive.
