On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:47 PM, jan iversen <jancasacon...@gmail.com> wrote: > 3) +1, but I will never understand why it is a mailing list and not a > forum, where it is so much easier to look at history
Oh please, not again... mailing lists have many advantages over web forums: 1. Speed (the emails arrive automagically, are text-only -most of the time-), no waiting for forum web pages to load, no adverts, no footers, no colors, no graphical sig files, no animated gifs to look at, no delay to "log-in", messages just arrive to your mailbox 2. Easy archival (just set a rule and archive your list email to a given subfolder or a given GMail Label) 3. Reply speed (most of my on-line time is spent loking at the gmail inbox, when something of interest arrives -ie ooo-dev with some interesting subject line- I click and read it immediately). 4. Sense of community: it´s much easier to deal with troublemakers, spammers and trolls etc on a mailing list (just ban his email address) than on web forums. ...and that just are the most obvious ones off the top of my head on a Sunday at 4:50am local time... FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell
