-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Curtis L. Olson schrieb: > I have a question I'd like to toss out to the group for discussion/comment. > > What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and converting > over to online/web-based forums?
I hate forums. At a mailinglist I've got nothing to do - they come to me. At a forum I must think of querying it once in a while - I have to come to them. It's like the difference between polling and interrupts... > - I'm getting really sick of spam. That's a valid point. But I think that can be handeld automatically. THe admins get 2 kind of mails: 1) valid mail that bounced 2) SPAM If you'll just have an autoresponder that tells all reasons why a mail bounced (like: "your email address isn't registerd and/or your mail is bigger than 40kb") valid users know how to get their next mail through - and the SPAM doesn't affect *you* anymore. If you really want to switch to a forum I'd only use it for the fgfs-users mailinglist. There I can think that the advantages outweight the disadvantages - but we still need some people that poll that forum. An average developer probably hasn't got the time... CU, Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDKG3GlhWtxOxWNFcRAi5CAJwO2hL4oxdyFLMPJuPMx3YBGDd9CQCgmVSJ BIMR2XKw0zGNIhISL3dapnY= =GLzg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
