Indeed! The forums have made GIMPS a lot more enjoyable to me and I'm pretty sure has attracted far more participants than the mailing list did. And that comment about maturity is simply wrong "IMHO". Anurag
Paul Leyland wrote: > It's your loss ... > > > Paul > > On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 12:55 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: >> Anurag Garg wrote: >> >>> Paul Leyland wrote: >>>> On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 10:12 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: >>>> >>>>> I agree it's too bad that communities are split like this, but >>>>> that's the fault of the webfora crowd, IMHO. >>>>> To me, the webfora usability is just way too low. How do you keep >>>>> track of 40 or 50 different fora? >>> Adding to Paul's comments, you don't need to keep track of 40-50 >>> different fora. Only five deal directly with GIMPS. And even then you >>> need to be selective. Also, you can subscribe to individual threads so >>> that you receive new posts via email. You can maintain much of the >>> flavour of a mailing list that way. >> I still can't be bothered. I simply don't participate in projects whose >> primary means of communication is a webforum. To me, such projects are >> not sufficiently mature. I find it highly unusual that Gimps actually >> switched from a mailing list to a forum. >> >> >> /Per Jessen, Zürich >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Prime mailing list >> Prime@hogranch.com >> http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime > > _______________________________________________ > Prime mailing list > Prime@hogranch.com > http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list Prime@hogranch.com http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
