[sldev] A forum

[Tony]

I agree that this can become a pretty heated issue pretty quickly.

I'm not 100% sure that we can't have both worlds, at least to some 
degree as many forums have capabilities to be monitored and have new 
posts sent out similar to email lists.

Personally, I would prefer the forums with notifications of some sort 
because I'd prefer not to store all the messages locally. Thunderbird 
now pauses for a moment before opening my SLDEV folder, even though I 
limit it to the last 60 days.

The mailing list has archives, but responses don't always get put in the 
same thread all together.
This adds to the complexity when someone new to the list wants to search 
for an answer to something. That answer may be spread out across several 
days in the archive. Forums tend to have the threads organized much better.

Would it be possible to either create a forum that sends new posts out 
to the mailing list (but keeps threads organized the way forums usually 
do), or have the mailing list archive message in a forum like fashion? 
This would seem to make everybody happy so those that want to be 
informed immediately can, and those that just want to browse topics 
periodically (without having to subscribe, can...).

Tony

Robin Cornelius wrote:
> Paul Cook wrote:
>   
>> A new topic.
>>
>> I find myself wondering why this mailing list exists. It contains a lot
>> of useful information and helpful people, but I mean, why does it exist
>> as a mailing list?
>>     
>
> This is the stuff of flame wars ;-) some people just prefer mailing
> lists and find them easier to deal with. I am one of those people.
>
>   
>> It's not exactly optimal to have to read through discussions you're not
>> interested in, in a linear monolithic manner. It also has the problem of
>> spamming up my inbox, even when in digest mode. And aside from that, we
>> get random ads from microsoft in our mails from hotmail adresses.
>>     
>
> I use thunderbird on my linux and windows boxes and it is perfectly
> capable of threading the message display so its very clear what the
> topic thread is. Only issue is if someone replies and changes the topic
> then it ends up out of thread. I get mails from some 10+ high volume
> lists, they all go into there own folders away from inbox and are all
> nicely threaded for me to see.
>
>   
>> Given that the official SL forums are being overhauled, I'd like to
>> suggest that this mailing list would work better as a subforum within
>> the LL forums, perhaps.
>>     
>
> I would polity request not to do this.
>
>   
>> The forum/bulletin board structure has a lot of advantages over a single
>> monolithic list like this, making it easy to keep up with particular
>> topics and ignore those one isn't interested in, and not have a crammed
>> full inbox every day.
>>     
>
> Mail filters and threaded display in your mail client?
>
> Robin
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