On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 20:48 +0100, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > Forums, when implemented properly, are superior to any kind of mailing > list. Haven't seen one, yet... ;-p Yes, they have the potential for archiving and search, but having to go to them, instead of messages coming to you, makes them vastly inferior for many people. I'm certainly not going to log onto half a dozen, or more, webforums, nightly, to keep track of things that I easily do with mailing lists. *Different*, yes. Lots of potential features, yes. Superior, *no*. I'd argue, out of the lot of mailing lists, newsgroups, and webforums, that newsgroups are the superior. They are an archive. You can search them, for old and current messages. Getting a list of messages, without having to get the message bodies, is fast. You can keep/cache what you want. You can purge. You have all sorts of filtering options. You don't have to expose an email address. They do threading properly. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
