On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 07:31:26 -0500, Michael Vang wrote: >On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:27:13 +0100, Per Jessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It would be really nice to have the web-forum bidirectionally gated to the >> mailing >> list. > >Would you really want 100-200 emails a day?
I feed very active mailing-lists into my news-server, then read them as if they were newsgroups. If you don't run your own news-server (and probably not that many people do :-), http://gmane.org will do it for you. Also, most modern email-readers support some minimal sort of threading. >A lot of the forum is chit-chat that is only marginally related to GIMPS... Well, on an active mailing-list, they would be asked to take such discussion off-line. Or people would individually killfile those participants. >I personally prefer a text-based email list over a web-based forum... Definitely agree. >The forum is geared towards a different (Younger?) kind of user... I don't know to be honest. I suspect you're right, but I don't really understand the popularity of webforums over mailinglists and newsgroups. I suspect another thing that makes gating difficult is the lack of email-addresses in the forum. Which is perhaps what makes them attractive - anonymity? /Per -- http://www.spamchek.com/freetrial - sign up for your 30-day free trial! _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
