Re: [Freedos-devel] A web-based forum to replace the mailing-lists?

2022-05-04 Thread Ralf Quint
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 mailbo

Re: [Freedos-devel] A web-based forum to replace the mailing-lists?

2022-05-04 Thread Liam Proven
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 hor

Re: [Freedos-devel] A web-based forum to replace the mailing-lists?

2022-05-03 Thread Jim Hall
> 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.c

Re: [Freedos-devel] A web-based forum to replace the mailing-lists?

2022-05-03 Thread Harald Arnesen
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 b

[Freedos-devel] A web-based forum to replace the mailing-lists?

2022-05-03 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
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/