On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Jonathan Moules < jonathan-li...@lightpear.com> wrote:
> 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. > The problem is that the forum is better for the group of people asking one off questions. The people who would answer that question are the people who would have to treat it as "another mail source" of sorts. I'd like to see some sort of hybridized approach myself (for my own projects, not advocating for SQLite), where those who want email only can use email only, but there is still an official web based official history / forum-like entity, but that's more so that I could easily integrate it into my fossil repo, keeping all the history surrounding the project in one place. Maybe it's just a pipe dream. SDR _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
