On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Rene Teerwill <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/12/15 Søren Hauberg <[email protected]>: >> tir, 15 12 2009 kl. 13:12 +0100, skrev Rene Teerwill: >>> Are there any plans to replace the mailing list with a webforum? >> >> There are no such plans at the moment. Personally, I find mailing lists >> to be far superior as I don't have to log into some web page to get >> updated on what's going on. I just get the info directly in my mail box. > > You can do that easily in a webforum by (once) subscribing all forums > you are interested in. > On the other hand: Some people may not like to get zillions of mails > about stuff they are not interested in when they want only one answer > - they could subscribe only to some specific topics or check the forum > from time to time. > > I know your concerns: I was very unhappy as my main developer forums > shifted from newsgroups to a webforum and fighted agains it ("...a > newsreader is so much handier...offline...blabla...") After only a > couple of days I've got used to it. In the meantime I wouldn't want to > step back to the old system. > > Mailing lists were created in a time where webpages had nearly no > support for dynamic content. >
By the way, besides the OctaveForge list there are also 3 mailing lists related to core Octave. Do you propose to transform those too? Right now I handle all four conveniently from my Gmail; if only OctaveForge shifted to somewhere else that would be a real hassle. -- RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek computing expert & GNU Octave developer Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU) Prague, Czech Republic url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
