On Dec 2, 2013, at 8:29 AM, Paul Nathan <pnat...@vandals.uidaho.edu> wrote:

> On 12/2/13 8:21 AM, David Piepgrass wrote:
>> Hey, why not set up a Discourse forum? That would be so. much. better.
>> than a mailing list. As an OSS dev I've been itching to get one myself,
>> but don't have time or much money to set it up. For Mozilla, though? No
>> problem I'm sure.
>> 
>> http://www.discourse.org/
>> Google: discourse hosting.
>> http://www.google.com/search?q=discourse+hosting
>> 
>> 
>>    From: Eric Reed <ecr...@cs.washington.edu
>>    <mailto:ecr...@cs.washington.edu>>
>>    ...
>>    I'm not aware of any plans for a rust-users forum. Maybe spinning a
>>    rust-users mailing list off from rust-dev would make sense? We
>>    already did
>>    a similar thing with our IRC channels.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
> FYI, I've used a Discourse forum, and I've found it rather obnoxious.
> Much prefer the PHPBB or OSQA approach.
> 
> Mailing lists are, IMO, better (e.g., gpg works, attachments work,
> direct messaging comes built in).
> 
> A rust-users mailing list would be nice.

Personally, I’ve never met a forum that I cared for. Mailing lists are nice.

I second the idea of a rust-users ML.

-Kevin
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