On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Ralf Steinhaeusser <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/12/16 Jaroslav Hajek <[email protected]>: >> Nice. But besides the search capabilities, I see no big advantages. > > Just the main 3: > > * You don't need to register. You can go there, search for a solution > to your problem. In most cases that should be enough.
It's the same with the nabble archive. Anyway, *I* need to register. > * Privacy: In a forum I don't spread my email address. In a mailing > list it's very easy to collect email adresses. How do you mean? The nabble archive doesn't give up the addresses. They should only be visible to subscribers. > I've already had to > abandon 2 of my former email-adresses because they were spammed so > massively after posting to newsgroups. I get spam too, yet the spam filter handles them well. just a few spams per week get through. > * Only as many emails as I want that. > > Again: You can subscribe to the complete forum, then you will get > everything as email. That sounds good. But can you also reply to messages via e-mail? > I personally don't want that. > I am more or less just interested in the problems I have. > So I go to the forum, check if there's already a solution > If there is one I might want to subscribe to it so I get informed when > there's discussion on that topic again. > I also subscribe to topics I find to be important, so I get updated > when there's news and I can find them later easily (there's an area > "your subscriptions") > If I see questions where I can help, I post my comments > Then I post my question and when someone responses I get an email > automatically (If I've set up my profile that way) > > However, I understand that you like to do it differently and I respect > that. I just thought a different means of communication could make > life a bit easier, especially for new Octave-users. > I understand, but as Soren said, the developers are the most regular users, so their opinion matters the most. Of course, if you can transform the list to a web forum while preserving the mailing list interface (i.e. so that I can read and post through e-mail as before), I can't have reasonable objections. -- 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
