Thus spake Jeffrey Brent McBeth: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 01:49:40AM -0000, b5mith wrote: > > The biggest problem I see with the VASSAL project is that there is a > > lot of "what about me" going on with very little thought for what is > > best for VASSAL. > > So we need to stick with dis-organised 80s style collaboration because > > there are a couple of people who want to read e-mail on a PDA?? > > But, it isn't disorganized; it probably seems that way to you because the > e-mail readers of the 2000's are much much worse at organization than those > from the 80s/90s. > > The time worn arguments for a forum (every mailing list has this fight every > couple of months) are threading, igoring, and searching. But, we already > have all those with what we have now. In addition we allow people to choose > between push and pull content delivery, access to the individual comments so > that they can organize them how most makes sense to them if the standard > doesn't work for them, disconnected access to message history, rapid > navigation of discussions, and "you don't need a browser (tm)". > > I suspect that it would better to agree to disagree on these things and move > on to more fruitful discussions like Borg Cube vs. Death Star, Basestar vs. > Minbari Cruiser, and Wesley vs. Klingons. > > Jeff >
I see that there *is* a bidirectional mail-forum gateway plugin for PHPBB. If this works well, we could have it both ways. I might look into this over the weekend. -- J.
