On 9/24/2010 4:06 AM, Wesley Acheson wrote: ...
The point is once your involved in something, doing more than just looking for answers a Mailing list is much better, it involves you much more directly. I don't have to check 10 sites for my 10 subscribed mailing lists. The emails are just there all filtered into their own labels (folders). So its probably better for a open source project to use a mailing list.
+1. I actually prefer NNTP groups, but mailing lists are a close second. As soon as you need to follow more than one group, e-mail is much more efficient than a web-based forum.
The dev list has other special functions you just wouldn't see working with a forum, such as having the commit logs mailed, and the bugs mailed. This doesn't work well with forums as you'd either have one massive topic or spam with several little topics. Having said all that though I woudn't attempt to read these lists with outlook/outlook express or thunderbird. That just wouldn't work for me.
T-bird works fine once you set filters to organize the e-mails. D --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
