Just my two cents > -----Original Message----- > From: Seth Brundle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 3:29 PM > To: David Brodbeck; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Could we make this a web discussion forum? > > > > > I really hate on-line forums. They're difficult to track because I > > > must remember visit them daily. > > > > Agreed. I don't need yet another web page to keep track of. I > prefer to > > let my mail reader thread up the messages on this list, then I browse > > through every now and then and delete everything with a subject that > doesn't > > look interesting. It's much more convenient than a web forum, and much > > faster too, because > > Email lists are essentially push technology. > It assumes that becuase you are interested in something, you are > insterested > in it every day. > There is absolutely no information that I need pushed to me every day. > If I want it, i will go there and participate.
So don't subscribe to the list, check one of the many online archives when you feel like checking them (I like http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ ). I like getting posts in my email box, that is why I subscribed the the mailing list, to get them as email. If it were a web forum I would have to wait for everyone to check the forum after I posted my question, then check back after they had checked in order to get replies. This way, people get my question immediately and the answers come to me immediately. > Think of it this way - lets say you use 1,000 pieces of software over the > course of the year - this is easy to imagine if you consider ls(1) to be a > piece of software. Its pretty easy to imagine how impossible it > would be to > maintain subscription to 1,000 mailing lists (I get annoyed with 10!). > So only subscribe to the ones that interest you. I have Microsoft Office installed on my computer but I am not on any Microsoft lists, because I don't care to be. > So what makes MySQL so special? I am interested in it so I thought it was special enough to sign up for the list, if you don't, don't. > > > I don't have to wait for some remote, overloaded server > > to respond. > > I dont understand this one at all. The amount of people on the list checking a single website constantly (messages come in all day long, you'd have to check often, even more frequently if you were waiting for an answer) would probably overload a webserver and make it slow to respond. The amount of hardware you'd have to throw at it would be a lot more than required to run a mailing list. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
