>> Hi! >> I was wondering - why are we not using forum for community? >> It's much better to view, you can subscribe and unsubscribe to the >> topics you want and etc. >> > > For me, mailing list is much better to view, filter, read off-line, > quick download etc. etc. For admins, mailing list is much easier to > maintain (no buggy, crappy phpBB, etc.). > > I wouldn't say mailing lists are entirely bug free - witness the duplicate messages I regularly delete out of my openmoko folder on a regular basis.
for me some advantages of forums: - far easier to set up and use, no filters and etc. - far less distracting, with no emails coming in every 5 secs for every topic. - don't have to download 1 million emails onto all my machines that I use thunderbird on. +1 for forums from me. or, why not usenet?? what's wrong with newsgroups? I don't understand why people prefer mailing lists to newsgroups. Ben B. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community