Stephen Cook wrote: > On 11/16/2010 10:51 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > What I'm more interested in is still a word from the people who would > > actually *use* a forum on how this would be better than sites like > > Nabble and Gmane. > > I'm one of those. I'm subscribed to these mailing lists simply because > it is the only way I know of to get the messages in a timely fashion, > but I would greatly prefer a forum-style interface. > > I had never heard of Nabble or Gmane until now, but I just checked them > out and from my quick look it *looks* like a web interface for people > who prefer mailing lists. > > I like having a category breakdown (at the moment I have my email client > splitting the various lists into folders), and I like having little > icons telling me which ones I already read and which are new (my email > client has that also of course). OK, here is why our Nabble/Gmane web sites are inferior to forums for some people ---- Nabble/Gmane have no per-user state indicating what has been read, what threads you are interested in getting email notification about, etc. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
