Nick Bowler writes:
> On 13:58 Mon 26 Jul , John Meacham wrote:
>> There already is an NNTP <-> mailing list gateway via gmane that gives a
>> nice forumy and threaded web interface for those with insufficient email
>> readers. Adding a completely different interface seems unnecessary and
>>
Kevin Jardine writes:
> On Jul 26, 6:45 pm, Nick Bowler wrote:
>
>> Since when do mailing lists not have threading? Web forums with proper
>> support for threading seem to be few and far apart.
>
> Most of the email clients I'm familiar with don't support threaded
> displays and most of the web
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 07:59:40PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> NNTP is
...
It's all true. I used nntp extensively in the 90s. I never emo-quit, I
just stopped using it over time due to waning ISP support and other
reasons made it more of a pain. I have nothing against nntp as a
protocol, but I
On 2010-07-27 19:59 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> Darrin Chandler wrote:
> > IOW, if people use the proper and well known features of NNTP it would
> > be a better world than the one we have were people do not use proper and
> > well known features of SMTP.
>
> SMTP is designed for delivering mess
Darrin Chandler wrote:
IOW, if people use the proper and well known features of NNTP it would
be a better world than the one we have were people do not use proper and
well known features of SMTP.
SMTP is designed for delivering messages point-to-point. If your email
provider incorrectly mar
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 07:01:45PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> If you have a forum powered by NNTP, you can casually throw in a
> "hey, nice one" time comment as a reply to part of a thread, and
> only people interested in that thread have to see your message (or
> download it, for that matter).
>From my experience once a forum pops up the mailing list dies.
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John Meacham wrote:
There already is an NNTP <-> mailing list gateway via gmane that gives a
nice forumy and threaded web interface for those with insufficient email
readers. Adding a completely different interface seems unnecessary and
fragmentary.
Trouble is, you can't use it like just ano
On 13:58 Mon 26 Jul , John Meacham wrote:
> There already is an NNTP <-> mailing list gateway via gmane that gives a
> nice forumy and threaded web interface for those with insufficient email
> readers. Adding a completely different interface seems unnecessary and
> fragmentary.
>
> http://new
On Monday 26 July 2010 22:10:46, Evan Laforge wrote:
> Apart from threading and attachments, are there other
> reasons you prefer a forum?
I'm a mailing list guy too, but one possible advantage of a forum is that
it might be easier to search by topic.
Have a problem with type families?
Go to the
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 04:37:45PM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
> On 13:28 Mon 26 Jul , Kevin Jardine wrote:
> > On Jul 26, 10:10 pm, Evan Laforge wrote:
> >
> > > Interesting, I've never figured out why some people prefer forums, but
> > > you're proof that they exist :)
> >
> > This debate
On Jul 26, 10:37 pm, Nick Bowler wrote:
> It seems to me, then, that a wine-like web forum <-> mailing list
> gateway would satisfy everyone without fragmenting the community?
Definitely looks like an interesting option, although since Google
groups and any decent web forum support RSS feeds, I'
On Jul 26, 10:37 pm, Nick Bowler wrote:
> It seems to me, then, that a wine-like web forum <-> mailing list
> gateway would satisfy everyone without fragmenting the community?
>
> Seehttp://forum.winehq.org/viewforum.php?f=2.
>
> --
> Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.
On 13:28 Mon 26 Jul , Kevin Jardine wrote:
> On Jul 26, 10:10 pm, Evan Laforge wrote:
>
> > Interesting, I've never figured out why some people prefer forums, but
> > you're proof that they exist :)
>
> This debate is eerily similar to several others I've seen (for
> example, on the intera
On Jul 26, 10:10 pm, Evan Laforge wrote:
> Interesting, I've never figured out why some people prefer forums, but
> you're proof that they exist :)
This debate is eerily similar to several others I've seen (for
example, on the interactive fiction mailing list).
In every case I've seen, a web
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Kevin Jardine wrote:
> On Jul 26, 6:45 pm, Nick Bowler wrote:
>
>> Since when do mailing lists not have threading? Web forums with proper
>> support for threading seem to be few and far apart.
>
> Most of the email clients I'm familiar with don't support threade
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On 7/26/10 15:54 , Kevin Jardine wrote:
> On Jul 26, 6:45 pm, Nick Bowler wrote:
>
>> Since when do mailing lists not have threading? Web forums with proper
>> support for threading seem to be few and far apart.
>
> Most of the email clients I'm fa
On Jul 26, 6:45 pm, Nick Bowler wrote:
> Since when do mailing lists not have threading? Web forums with proper
> support for threading seem to be few and far apart.
Most of the email clients I'm familiar with don't support threaded
displays and most of the web forums I'm familiar with do (alth
On 08:15 Mon 26 Jul , Kevin Jardine wrote:
> Other topics I am interested in are served by both a web forum and a
> mailing list, usually with different content and participants in both.
> In my experience, routing one kind of content to another does not work
> very well because of issues of sp
Other topics I am interested in are served by both a web forum and a
mailing list, usually with different content and participants in both.
In my experience, routing one kind of content to another does not work
very well because of issues of spam control, moderation, topic
subdivisions, the ability
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