On Feb 11, 2015, at 4:16 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
On Tuesday February 10 2015 21:27:07 Craig Treleaven wrote:
PS Some forums can be set up to send you an email
when a sub-forum or topic is updated (after your
last visit). I don't know of any that allow you
to send an email that
On Tuesday February 10 2015 21:27:07 Craig Treleaven wrote:
PS Some forums can be set up to send you an email
when a sub-forum or topic is updated (after your
last visit). I don't know of any that allow you
to send an email that becomes a posting, however.
Anyone who ever reported a Google
At 5:45 PM -0500 2/10/15, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
Having both forums and mailing lists would be
harmful to the community. We'd end up with two
bubbles (one much smaller, probably) that don't
interact with each other.
The only way forums would work is if we migrated *all* discussion there.
On Tuesday February 10 2015 12:30:07 Arno Hautala wrote:
Not by sending to the list, no. But there's always the option of sending to
a hand-picked selection of list members, if there's a reason to limit the
audience.
Also something that doesn't require having a public members list.
On Feb 10, 2015, at 12:43 PM, René J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com wrote:
To kick off the discussion: has a MacPorts forum site ever been taken into
consideration
Not since I've been paying attention, which has been a few years.
if so, what were the reasons not to provide one (a summary
On Feb 10, 2015, at 5:29 PM, René J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com wrote:
I see them as complementary. Some people prefer mailing lists, others like
myself prefer to keep their incoming mail as few as possible.
Complementary implies that the items in question reinforce each other in a
On Tuesday February 10 2015 17:45:39 Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
Complementary implies that the items in question reinforce each other in a
positive manner.
I think they would, but who am I ... =)
Having both forums and mailing lists would be harmful to the community. We'd
end up with two
