On 2013-11-06 16:08, Russel Winder wrote: > On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 16:48 +0100, Luke Daley wrote: > […] >> According to registration/subscription numbers, such people are in the clear >> minority. > > Now that is pure sophistry! > > In a situation where everyone is told "use the forum or get no > response", it is hardly surprising the forum has the majority of users. > Those who like or can just about tolerate forums use them, the rest of > us fade away from the activity and are no longer counted. But I am still > an active advocate for Gradle despite that. > > It remains a major faux pas of the forum provider that they are > technically unable to support a proper email interface. If they are the > bleeding edge then the NNTP interfaces of 20 years ago (still in use > today cf. the D community) remain the superior mechanism: forum and > email all in the same system. But then it is not shiny and new and > cloudy, so I guess it is beneath the horizon for the cool hipsters.
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