-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 March 2008 03:53:49 am oiaohm wrote: > Its just a progression. Even if you unlink the forum/mailing list all > you are doing is buying time. Sooner or latter mailing lists will become > popular again. That's a good thing, though. At least mailing lists are usable even if the content often isn't. Forums are just slow and a pain in the ass to use compared to email. About the only way you can make a forum worse or a mailing list less functional is to attach it to a broken forum2mail gateway that stomps threads and allows people to reply without quoting. > All it would really take is a few beginner books published > showing number one how to use mailing lists number two saying that they are > the best way to get answers. Even worse is if email clients start making > using mail lists very point and click. How is that a bad thing? Modern mail clients like mutt or kmail make things like adding to the subject and setting reply-to back to the mailing list entirely unnessessary. This is a good thing: Machines should not be touching or setting explicitly user-set headers like Subject and Reply-To in the first place. - -- Paul Johnson baloo@xxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH591WUCxPKZafKh0RAu5zAJ0aflz0EG7NPBA9n4n7qZWrvT8mzgCeP7Vs r9I2J3l2uafJ7AtYGyrlDuE= =bRnX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
