And you have emails going back to 2002 when the list started? So this is why there's a WWW: so everybody can have their own copy of everything but its OK 'cause it's all hosted by some company for free. :-)
Thanks, Ezra Epstein Amazon.com - Developer Tools 206-266-2259 -----Original Message----- From: Koka Kiknadze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 3:17 PM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: Why I hate mailing lists I use gmail account for this list and my list + is not segmented + there is search feature Imo gmail makes mailing list somewhat equivalent to forums. On 7/7/06, Epstein, Ezra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I wanted to read up about putting multiple portlets/pages in a > single Tapestry portlet .war and went happily to the online mailing > list archives and what do I find: > > The archives are segmented: > + first by month (oh and only 3 months are online) then by a "page" of > + "n" postings in a month. > + there's no search feature. > > This is why I deplore mailing lists. They are so 1983. Why don't all > teams follow Hibernate's (and others) lead and choose a simple Forum > (phpBB in the case of Hibernate). It (like google/yahoo groups) is > free, keeps all the old posts, is automatically topically "threaded", > is entirely searchable, if you're addicted to email you can get posts > as emails or, if you prefer, receive daily digests. Why would anyone > continue to use an outdated technology like an email list? > > Thanks, > > Ezra Epstein > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
