Sorry folks, but it does not matter who is right or wrong, if you want to open a forum... go ahead, you can even announce it here; those interested will follow your idea, but for the time being you are taking a lot of bandwidth, time and creating distraction. Please, I encourage you to open the forum and to announce the existence of it here, but stop posting the plusses and minuses of it. Thanks in advance!!
-----Original Message----- From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org [mailto:sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Frank Missel Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 10:10 AM To: 'General Discussion of SQLite Database' Subject: Re: [sqlite] FW: How about a proper forum rather than an e-mail list Hi Mark, Well, perhaps you are right. But I am not going to take on that. I am a user of SQLite and can perhaps help with some posts and suggestions now and then. So I am just going to throw in the idea and state the pros vs. cons as I see them . Best regards, Frank > -----Original Message----- > From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org [mailto:sqlite-users- > boun...@sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Mark Schonewille > Sent: 18 October 2011 21:54 > To: General Discussion of SQLite Database > Subject: Re: [sqlite] FW: How about a proper forum rather than an e-mail list > > Hi, > > I know from experience that there really is no point whatsoever in discussing > whether a forum is better than mail or not. People are just not going to > agree. Just set up your forum and find out whether you're going to have > subscribers. > > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille > > Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering > Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer > KvK: 50277553 > > See what you get with only a small contribution. All our LiveCode downloads > are listed at http://qery.us/zr > > On 18 okt 2011, at 15:49, Frank Missel wrote: > > >> boun...@sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Denis MUYS > >> > >>> 1. Several subject forums as mentioned > >>> > >> Mail can have as many subjects as desired > > > > Well, so can forum posts. The point is that the forum is divided into > > main categories above the subject of the post > > > > > >>> 2. Better view of threads with several levels being immediately > >>> displayed > >>> > >> My mail client threads far better than most forums (fora?) > > > > I seriously doubt that :-). > > I mean how much better than a totally ordered hierarchy with several > > levels and forks can it be. > > > > But perhaps your mail client is very good. Which one do you use? > > > > Also, in a forum, you can see posts from a selected author sorted by date. > > > > > >>> 3. Preview of entries and editing of them even after they are > >>> posted (by the author) > >> > >> Which can be seen as a liability > > > > To be sure. > > But then again until anyone has posted a reply. It can be used to > > correct a typo or add info (where it makes sense rather than add a new > post). > > > > > >>> 4. Formatted rather than plain text > >> > >> Which mail is capable of > > > > Any formatting is stripped. At least it is so on the sqlite-users mail-list. > > > > > >>> 5. No need for e-mail-addresses to be exposed > >>> > >> Couldn't a mailing list hide email addresses too? > > > > Perhaps it could. > > I find, however, that e-mails are spread all over the place on the > > sqlite-users mailing list. So it is not being done here. > > That is one of my big objections as it invariable leads to spamming of > > the members. > > > > > >> On the other hand, I find mailing lists much better: I can read them > >> off > > line, I > >> can also answer them off line (my client will send my answers as soon > >> as > > it > >> gets online), I can archive any and/or all posts that I find valuable. > > > > I get messages from others when they are on their way to work or home > > sitting in trains and busses. > > Mostly people are just online through wireless or mobile networks. It > > is considered "in" to be able to access the Internet at all times in > > all places, so I find that point a bit moot nowadays. > > > > > >> In fact, when fora (forums?) propose a mailing list interface (i.e. > >> google groups), I prefer subscribing to them as a mailing list. > >> > >> Even better than mailing lists: newsgroups. Except my company only > >> lets us use port 80 in addition to the mail gateway, so I can't use > newsgroups. > > > > Who am I tell someone what to prefer. > > I just find, however, it is a bit religious like choice of OS or > > gadgets. I can see that e-mail lists can work and in the past could > > have a lot of advantages. Nowadays, I find not as many good reasons to > > prefer them over a proper forum which have some really nice features. > > > > > > /Frank Missel > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
