Re: [Freedos-devel] A web-based forum to replace the mailing-lists?
On 5/3/2022 11:48 AM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote: But would you use it instead of the mailing-lists if it would be there? This has been brought up several times in the last 20 years or so. And no, I would likely not use it. The mailing list posts come in automatically to my mailbox, nicely filtered, even when I am not on my main computer. I can read and answer if necessary when ever I have time. A web forum requires to have the time to actively log in and see what is new. Time which I might not have. That's why I prefer to have the mailing lists. It just seems that less and less people these days know how to properly handle emails, apparently don't even know anymore how to send an email to a mailing list instead of doing full quote replies on digest or unrelated topic threads. Using a web browser to deal with email is one of the fallacies these days, instead of using a proper email client, which also would be able to properly show threads and not only email in chronological order of being send... Ralf -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] A web-based forum to replace the mailing-lists?
On Tue, 3 May 2022 at 20:50, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote: > > But would you use it instead of the mailing-lists if it would be there? Absolutely not, no. I hate web fora. There's no standard markup, no standard way of quoting, threading is usually broken, and they are often full of horrid ugly graphics, animations and other time-wasting junk. I would need to check tens to hundreds of websites to see if anyone commented, instead of it all coming to 1 email inbox I can access from anywhere. Email beats all of them. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] A web-based forum to replace the mailing-lists?
> Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel [03/05/2022 20.48]: [..] > > That's why I wrote: "We also communicate through a web-based discussion > > program called Forum, but it is less used: (Link to forums)." I > > thought that maybe we had a web-based discussion program like phpBB > > (https://www.phpbb.com/demo/ ) that I was just not using because we did > > not used it much. But it looks like we use the mailing-lists because we > > don't have a web based forum. I used "Forum" on www.freedos.org because I used to get a lot of emails from folks asking if there was a place to talk about FreeDOS with other FreeDOS users. They were looking for a link called "Forums" .. the old "Email lists" link name didn't help these people find the email lists. (I think the newer generation is more used to web forums like on Facebook and Slack, but will use email lists when they realize that's what we use.) > > At least, I would prefer we use a web-based forum, because that way, > > threads about not concluded subjects remains (supposing no one erase > > them), while with mailing lists these subjects just tend to get > > forgotten. Also messages can be edited before I see them (so that > > erroneous information can have been already fixed). > > > > But would you use it instead of the mailing-lists if it would be there? On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 2:30 PM Harald Arnesen wrote: > I would certainly not. I agree with Harald. I would prefer not to move us to a web-based forum. There are some administrative headaches that go with maintaining a web forum. But the more practical reason is we just don't need it. Every time a "web forum" has been proposed here, we haven't been interested. And I'm perfectly fine with keeping the email lists as our primary way to communicate with each other. Don't need to fix that. Jim ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] A web-based forum to replace the mailing-lists?
Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel [03/05/2022 20.48]: At least, I would prefer we use a web-based forum, because that way, threads about not concluded subjects remains (supposing no one erase them), while with mailing lists these subjects just tend to get forgotten. Also messages can be edited before I see them (so that erroneous information can have been already fixed). But would you use it instead of the mailing-lists if it would be there? I would certainly not. -- Hilsen Harald ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
[Freedos-devel] A web-based forum to replace the mailing-lists?
I was confused by the suggested word "forums" in a previous email. That's why I wrote: "We also communicate through a web-based discussion program called Forum, but it is less used: (Link to forums)." I thought that maybe we had a web-based discussion program like phpBB (https://www.phpbb.com/demo/ ) that I was just not using because we did not used it much. But it looks like we use the mailing-lists because we don't have a web based forum. At least, I would prefer we use a web-based forum, because that way, threads about not concluded subjects remains (supposing no one erase them), while with mailing lists these subjects just tend to get forgotten. Also messages can be edited before I see them (so that erroneous information can have been already fixed). But would you use it instead of the mailing-lists if it would be there? Would Jim consider adding such an extension to the website?___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
