Hi! I very much agree - that is: both ways. I love web based forums for searching and following threads, and for not cluttering my mailbox when travelling. But also to be able to have what I want as emails when I want to. Or even (is this heresy?) as RSS, a function I like a lot. Magnus Larsson Peter Flynn skrev: > Berhan SOYLU wrote: >> I think we need a community message board. Nowadays, there comes nearly >> 20 mails per a day...mail group is so primitive for this..Is there >> anyone who knows why we don't have o message board like phpbb, smf or >> something like etc...? > > I can only speak for myself but the last thing on earth I want is a > web-based message-board. I want the messages to come to me, not me have > to go to the messages. The forms-based mechanism for replies is horribly > clumsy on all the ones I have used, and the repositories don't thread > properly, and people fill up their messages with all kinds of fancy HTML > formatting. > > 20 mails a day is nothing. I can filter them, killfile a thread if > needed, and keep the ones I want for reference -- on *my* disk, so I can > refer to them whenever, rather than relying on someone else's server. > > No problem in having it both ways, with the list replicated to a BB > front-end like LISTSERV, with a proper searchable archive and a form for > posting. But please let's not drop the email mechanism: it's too valuable. > > YMMV :-) > ///Peter > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
