Lots of forums support RSS, and you can "subscribe" to a topic - two ways for forum posts to come to you. There are lots of people who prefer forums. Everything seems so much easier to me with a proper modern forum. There is so much that's just impossible on a mailing list. Mailing lists are searchable, but harder than a forum to search. Forums let you search by any of text, title, author, date, category, etc. You can't cancel or edit posts. Forum moderators can delete spam posts. On a mailing list, once spam gets though to my mailbox it's too late for a moderator to delete it. Mailing lists can be categorized, but then you have to subscribe to each category individually - hence all user discussion being lumped together into "wine-users" instead of being subcategorized. Forums puts quoted text in a nice colored box so you can tell unmistakably at a glance. You quote people with greater-than symbols - so I can't as quickly distinguish message text from quoted text and it's ugly. Your probably used to it, but we're not. Forum admins can give people badges and/or titles to make it clear who's a developer. And you can see anyone's posting history. On a mailing list you can only sometimes tell by email address or signature. Forum admins can lock (prevent replies to) a topic that's turned into a really bad flamewar. _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
