On 21 May 2011 16:08, Sam Couter <[email protected]> wrote: > John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 21 May 2011 13:52, Nick Hocking <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Forums (IMO) are much superior to mailing lists for one simple reason.... >> > If the forum software is a threaded one then it is really easy to avoid >> > reading any drivel from the trolls. You just ignore the whole thread if the >> > troll starts it or just ignore any parts of an otherwise useful thread if >> > it >> > becomes troll infested. > >> While not a forum, you do realise you can do the same thing with a >> newsgroup interface? > > Any decent mail client will offer the same feature. > > Forums suck hardcore. They all have different feature sets, differently > disabled UIs, they encourage terrible posting styles, and worst of all I > have to go to them (and register separately at each one, log in each > time I visit, manage yet another user profile, remember a whole new set of > user identities for those I interact with, etc) if I want to read the > content. > > With mailing lists on the other hand, the content conveniently comes > direct to me, I get to choose what software has the interface I like, and > it is impossible for censors to delete stuff before I get to see it. All > that, and I still have a delete button for stuff I don't want to see.
I was trying to avoid the discussion/flame war over mailing lists v forums v whatever. This is a very subjective thing, possibly due to when you started to use the internet and your personality/preferences etc etc etc If people want to use a forum like interface, gmane.org does that I believe. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
