@ivaylo: Why such a harsh reaction ?
>Mail just works.
So does a forum ! Both things are different ways of communication.
Mailing list are still a valid option and often used in big software
projects. The same goes for IRC or newsgroups.
I simply wanted to highlight that the current situation is less than optimal.
If the "forum" is another representation of the mailing list then it should
work the same way and present stuff the same way (e.g. Hyperlinks, Quoted
text and so on). If this does not work then the forum should be fixed or
dropped (if fixing is not possible).
A forum can be a powerful communication platform. Simply check out doom9 or
archlinux. If you prefer one or the other is simply a personal point of view.
>No we wouldn't.
I dislike the we in this sentence. On such topic there is no "we" as everyone
might have his preferred option.
>Mail is convenient for some people, including me.
>A web forum is awkward and inconvenient.
Following the same argumentation approach that you chose I could also say a
mailing list is awkward.
>A web forum I have to go to and check regularly
This is simply not true and depends on the forum software used. You can
configure it to send you notifications on each topic you posted on a timely
base (instantly, each day, whatever). Those notification include often enough
the message posting. I would even bet you can extend a forum that you simply
reply to a topic to send a mail.
In the end it would be interesting for me what we as Trisquel users can do to
ensure that the mail list list works as fine as the forum ?
If solving those issues is not possible then I would rather suggest to shut
down the "forum" representation of the mailing list and simply store the
mailing list in a typical archive as many other projects do.
