I think there are two different use cases for a mailing list such as this, and they're each better served by different access method; either email or forums.
One use case is the individual with a long-term interest in a project/technology. Because of the long-term interest, an email list (which is a "push" technology - it comes to you) is ideal - you sign up once, set up mail filtering, and then read at your leisure in the client of your choice. The other use case is people with a one-off question. "Why isn't this query working?", "What's the SQLite function for XYZ?" etc. For me at least, whenever I have had one of these in the past for a particular technology, signing up to a mailing list is a chore. You sign up, wait for the confirmation email, get spammed by tons of stuff you're not interested in (you don't plan on being subscribed long enough to spend the time setting up filters), then have to unsubscribe when you've got the answer, and then confirm the unsubscription. Then two months later you have another query and have to do the entire process again. Personally I loathe going through this process for one-off questions. In this second use-case, a forum (being "pull" based - you get it when you want it) is better. Sign-up, correspond, then forget about it. If there's another question a few months later, you can login again using the old credentials and continue where you left off. Unfortunately I don't think there's much forum/list software out there that facilitates *both* use-cases. Google Groups tries to, but I've not encountered anything else (not that I've gone looking). I've seen some lists try and punt this "forum" component off to domain specific stackexchange sub-sites, but that has it's own problem (splitting the community between venues). Just my 2p, Cheers, Jonathan ---- On Fri, 27 May 2016 10:55:30 +0100 Rob Willett <rob.sql...@robertwillett.com> wrote ---- I agree with Tim. I filter all my SQLite messages to its own folder and read as needed. I prefer this method to a forum as I can then keep the messages with me. I’m often off the internet and its good to have them for reading. Also I can look back through them and get hints and tips about issues. Its not perfect but it works for me. I get around the distraction of emails coming in through client filtering, I did start filtering at the server so that only important stuff came through immediately but that didn’t work well. I now use Mailmate and like the power and lack of graphical eye candy it offers. I’d actively vote against a SQLite forum rather than e-mail (if anybody asked me, which I doubt…) SQLite is important to our work so having it around is fine by me, YMMV Rob On 27 May 2016, at 10:34, Tim Streater wrote: > On 27 May 2016 at 08:56, Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net> > wrote: > >> On 2016-05-26 9:00 PM, Balaji Ramanathan wrote: >>> The main advantage of forums, and I follow a bunch of them, is that >>> I choose >>> when I want to stop my regular day job and be distracted by them >>> rather than >>> emails coming in and distracting me all the time. >> >> That's not an argument for web forums, rather that's an argument for >> not using >> your work email to subscribe to non-work discussion lists; use a >> non-work email >> for the discussion lists instead. You can also configure your email >> client to >> only check email when you tell it to rather than constantly. -- >> Darren Duncan > > Filter the sqlite mails into their own mailbox. They can then be read > at a convenient moment. > > I certainly don't want a whole lot of sub-forums and the like, each of > which has to be checked in case there's something interesting there. > > -- > Cheers -- Tim > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
