In the last episode (Mar 31), Seth Brundle said: > First people, please dont get all angry about my suggestion...please > hear me out... > > > I really hate on-line forums. They're difficult to track because I > > must remember visit them daily. > > OK this is the first issue - 95% of people who need MySQL info do not > need it daily. Mailing lists are a poor tool for them. > > > And I can't use them while disconnected. > > Hmmmm...seems like some Yahoo! employee has never used Yahoo! Groups > ;) > > There is plenty of web discussion software (like Yahoo! Groups, > although I'm not necessarily recommending that one) where you can > still have all of the features of a mailing list, yet also have all > the features of web discussion, so there really is no reason to have > a mailing list only, except to be old-school.
Yahoo groups are really mailinglists, though, so you wouldn't buy anything by moving to them. Their web interface is also one of the worst imho; I preferred the original Findmail interface (circa 98 before they got bought by eGroups, before /they/ got bought by Yahoo :) > > I believe there is already a read-only NNTP mirror of this group. > > The NNTP mirror is actually a double-edged sword - yes it takes care > of archiving and searching (via Google Groups), I will agree, but it > misleads infrequent users into thinking posting actually does > something meaningful. gmane ( http://www.gmane.org or nntp://news.gmane.org ) mirrors 10 mysql mailinglists, and is a 2-way system so you can post from it. The preferred access method is with a newsreader, but there's also a web interface. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
