On Thursday 30 November 2006 06:20, Jon S. Berndt wrote: > Curt wrote: > I just realize I have said absolutely nothing. :-) > > I think I'm going to let them run just a bit longer and then maybe we can > an idea if enough people think they are useful and are using them. > > If the community is split into two different camps, communication is going > to suffer, plain and simple. I can receive email wherever I am and reply or > not. I can set up filters and rules in my email program to sort the email > posts. If the mails to the FlightGear-devel lists are archived in a forum, > that's fine. If posts to a forum are likewise echoed to the -devel list, > that's fine. In other words, if there are two ways to view a single > communication venue, that's fine. But if there are two completely > independent venues to discuss issues (say, the Users list), that would be > very, very bad. It really defeats the purpose of having any kind of > discussion group/list/forum at all. Yep a mail gateway to such forums would do the trick. To be honest, I do not see an advantage of inventing and driving such a gateway in favour of using a mailing list that is already set up.
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