Re: [libreplanet-discuss] resources about mailing lists vs. forums (e.g. Discourse)

2019-05-06 Thread Eric Wong
"J.B. Nicholson" wrote: > John Sullivan wrote: > > I'm not aware of any, but I think that's a good idea, since I've seen > > the same conversation many times too. The libreplanet.org wiki could be > > a good place for it? > > I see that https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists_vs._Discourse_For

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] resources about mailing lists vs. forums (e.g. Discourse)

2019-05-05 Thread John Sullivan
"J.B. Nicholson" writes: > John Sullivan wrote: >> I'm not aware of any, but I think that's a good idea, since I've seen >> the same conversation many times too. The libreplanet.org wiki could be >> a good place for it? > > I see that > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists_vs._Discourse_For

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] resources about mailing lists vs. forums (e.g. Discourse)

2019-05-05 Thread J.B. Nicholson
U'll Be King Of The Stars wrote: Usenet was one of my favorite things about the internet. I would love for it to be revived. Usenet is still around and working quite well. Usenet might not be as popular as it once was but it's not dead. In fact, I'd say that the principled response to hostin

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] resources about mailing lists vs. forums (e.g. Discourse)

2019-05-04 Thread J.B. Nicholson
Michael Downey wrote: Again, Mozilla is self hosting their Discourse installation. No idea why you think otherwise. Apparently I was mistaken, I had understood that the Discourse software was making reference to items under the control of discourse.org keeping discourse.org in some control o

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] resources about mailing lists vs. forums (e.g. Discourse)

2019-05-04 Thread Michael Downey
Again, Mozilla is self hosting their Discourse installation. No idea why you think otherwise. Michael -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] resources about mailing lists vs. forums (e.g. Discourse)

2019-05-04 Thread J.B. Nicholson
Michael Downey wrote: Blaming the Discourse software project ("discourse.org") for the capacity Mozilla did or didn't build out for their forum would be like blaming Automattic (builders of WordPress) for my project's site outage during LibrePlanet that year. It's neither accurate nor fair. Are

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] resources about mailing lists vs. forums (e.g. Discourse)

2019-05-04 Thread U'll Be King Of The Stars
On 04/05/2019 14:22, Sudarshan S Chawathe wrote: > It may be interesting to consider also an architecture like USENET/NNTP > in this context. It is not without flaws, but it admits some additional > options in highly-loaded situations, such as prioritizing pushing of > articles to peer servers ove

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] resources about mailing lists vs. forums (e.g. Discourse)

2019-05-04 Thread Sudarshan S Chawathe
rom: Michael Downey > To: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org > Date: Sat, 04 May 2019 05:19:57 -0700 > Subject: Re: [libreplanet-discuss] resources about mailing lists vs. forums > (e.g. Discourse) > > [...] > > So there is, in fact, parity to something like mailman w

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] resources about mailing lists vs. forums (e.g. Discourse)

2019-05-04 Thread Michael Downey
On examination, this argument doesn't hold up. Read on to learn why. On Sat, 2019-05-04 at 02:13 -0500, J.B. Nicholson wrote: > Current situation: Mozilla has a discourse.org forum to discuss this > ( > https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/certificate-issue-causing-add-ons-to-be-disabled-or-fail-to-in

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] resources about mailing lists vs. forums (e.g. Discourse)

2019-05-04 Thread J.B. Nicholson
John Sullivan wrote: I'm not aware of any, but I think that's a good idea, since I've seen the same conversation many times too. The libreplanet.org wiki could be a good place for it? I see that https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists_vs._Discourse_Forum now points only to https://en.wikipe

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] resources about mailing lists vs. forums (e.g. Discourse)

2017-08-07 Thread John Sullivan
Thomas Harding writes: > Le 5 août 2017 21:21:18 GMT+02:00, John Sullivan a écrit : >> Daniel Pocock writes: >> >> > I've seen various communities having debates about whether to adopt >> > Discourse of similar forum software instead of a mailing list. >> > >> > Has anybody already prepared an

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] resources about mailing lists vs. forums (e.g. Discourse)

2017-08-05 Thread Thomas Harding
Le 5 août 2017 21:21:18 GMT+02:00, John Sullivan a écrit : > Daniel Pocock writes: > > > I've seen various communities having debates about whether to adopt > > Discourse of similar forum software instead of a mailing list. > > > > Has anybody already prepared any objective wiki pages or blogs

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] resources about mailing lists vs. forums (e.g. Discourse)

2017-08-05 Thread John Sullivan
Daniel Pocock writes: > I've seen various communities having debates about whether to adopt > Discourse of similar forum software instead of a mailing list. > > Has anybody already prepared any objective wiki pages or blogs comparing > mailing lists to forums and itemising each of the issues to b

[libreplanet-discuss] resources about mailing lists vs. forums (e.g. Discourse)

2017-07-06 Thread Daniel Pocock
I've seen various communities having debates about whether to adopt Discourse of similar forum software instead of a mailing list. Has anybody already prepared any objective wiki pages or blogs comparing mailing lists to forums and itemising each of the issues to be considered? Rather than repe