Am Samstag, den 02.01.2010, 11:28 -0600 schrieb tinku99: > tparker wrote: > > On 09/04/2009 12:45 AM, John Drescher wrote: > > > > what is the real advantage of a mailing list over phpbb anyways? > > > > > > The advantage over a forum is that I have 20 or so mailing list > > > subscriptions. If these were all forums I would not participate in > > > many of them. > > > > This is true for me as well. For me too. > > I would never take the time to load up and > > log into all the different forums, let alone the amount of time lost to > > forum navigation once you are there. > > With google alerts, you don't have to go to the forum to browse, and > your mailbox doesn't get as cluttered up if you are interested in a > high volume mailing list. Just let your mail program sort the messages for you into folders or use a different method as for example Sup [1] does. Also having users comply to standards, threading works and you have an uncluttered mailbox, when all threads are minimized. Unfortunately threading does not seem to be working with the list-forum converter used by Wine. > The problem with mailing lists is that gmane and nabble are too slow, What does that have to do with it? > and there are only so many mailing lists you can subscribe to without > overflooding your mailbox. See above. And additionally. if cited correctly you save a lot of time by just reading the last message and get the full context. [1] http://sup.rubyforge.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil URL: <http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20100102/d9d64eab/attachment.pgp>
