On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Rene Teerwill <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/12/16 Søren Hauberg <[email protected]>: >> I am a scientist. I don't accept explanations such: "everybody else is >> doing it, so it must be good". I need a proper rationale to be >> convinced. > > As I said: IMHO Webforums can do everything the mailing list can do > (which is not a lot) plus a bit more. > (although I don't know if you can send responses via email) > > For me that sounds like a good argument. > > A good example how a forum should look like is > http://www.delphipraxis.net/forum6_vcl+winforms+controls.html > (a german developer forum, quite active, this subtree has 180.000 > entries, the complete tree has 990.000 entries and is still quick, > easy to use and good searchable) >
Nice. But besides the search capabilities, I see no big advantages. Personal data & website, private messages, that's all easily doable in a mailing list as well. I see no "tree view" option. Can you reply to a particular message? Newcomers are required to register, just like with a mailing list. Can you filter messages automatically, give them labels, mark them as important, etc? You see, most of the convenience of working with a mailing list comes from the capabilities of existing mail clients. Of course, if you read mail in plain text from command line, any kind of web forum must look good, but for instance GMail is quite smart and customizable, and I don't think it's that easy to outmatch. -- 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
