[sldev] A forum

[Felix Duesenburg]

There certainly are pros and cons for both list and forum, but I'd also 
agree that the mailing list format has more advantages than 
disadvantages in this case. Searching for things is really a lot easier 
that way. Mostly I don't even use the threaded view (takes slightly 
longer to display), I just use the ad hoc filter ('Subject or Sender 
contains...'). I also archive my messages in one subfolder per month to 
keep file size manageable. Thunderbird (or SeaMonkey which I use) offers 
compression as well. And replies are faster because you get it shoved 
into your face and must make a decision to dismiss or write back, but I 
can see that this appears to be a stress factor for some.

But one thing that would speak for keeping a forum, too, or possibly a 
separate list: Where do you ask for help with fundamental things, those 
really noobish questions? Apart from support with getting the thing to 
compile, sldev doesn't appear to be the proper place for this. Of course 
there are plenty of public forums not tied to this project where you 
could ask for help e.g. when hassling with getting a call-by-reference 
right that keeps giving errors... stuff that happens when you've been 
with other OO languages for too long ;). Should we have a place within 
the SL community for that or does the majority feel it would be redundant?

Felix


Opensource Obscure wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:08:31 -0700, Tony <anthonyrbundy at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I agree that this can become a pretty heated issue pretty quickly.
>>     
>
> I don't think that our discussion about it would change anything, though. 
>
> By the way, a couple of other advantages of mailing 
> lists against (LL) forums: 
> - everybody can read this mailing list (LL forums are restricted 
> to pre-August-2006-users and users with Payment Info on File) 
> - discussions can be found using web search engines 
> - you can set filters so that messages coming from known trolls 
> or people you can't stand (or even boring threads) get automatically
> deleted
>
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Sorry for going offtopic and saying something you (probably) 
> already know, however .. if you use Thunderbird, compact 
> your folders - or your 'deleted' messages won't never really 
> get deleted from your hard disk (so that those pauses in the 
> application will persist and will keep growing): 
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Compacting_folders
>
>
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