Fedora Community: Under threat?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Jan 28 11:08:10 UTC 2005


Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>> This mailing list is already available in forum format at:
>> http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=10
>>
>> I much prefer mailing lists to forums personally, and if this list was 
>> to become forum-only, I wouldn't be here. It's just too much hassle to 
>> trawl through forums IMHO.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
> While I also prefer mailing list, I cannot deny the usefulness of web 
> forums, especially when there's lots of traffic like in this list, which 
> can lead to inbox or mail-box (as a whole) flooding... Even though in a 
> mailing list you also choose what to read and to pass, just as in a 
> forum, you also are left to clean your mail-box, which is not needed in 
> the web-forum... For not-so-populated mailing lists like the ALSA-users 
> one, I'd rather use my e-mail client... though for a list with the 
> amount of traffic this one has... I'd rather use the web interface.

I can certainly understand why many people would prefer to access this 
list as a forum, but I'm not one of them. Having the option of both, as 
at present, is the best way I think.

Paul.




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