On 10/02/2015 22:29, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
On Tuesday February 10 2015 16:24:30 Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
I personally would not want to have to check Yet Another Source of MacPorts
Discussion. I don't see what benefit a forum would have over our mailing lists.
I see them as complementary. Some people prefer mailing lists, others like
myself prefer to keep their incoming mail as few as possible. If not only
because new posts on a forum (= topics I'm not already participating in) cannot
pop up in your email and nag you to get distracted. With some forums you get
only a single email alert when there's new content after your last visit, not a
copy of each and every message posted, which is a nice feature too. Oh, and did
I mention that email that you don't get also doesn't have to be deleted, nor
archived? ;)
I guess it should also be possible to set up some kind of gateway between a
forum and specific mailing lists, but I suppose no one would really have an
issue following a link that leads to a forum thread, sent by email by a member
who knows which other members don't monitor the forum, and would like their
participation.
There is a gateway to a simple web page at gmane
<http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.macports.devel>
Mark
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