On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, jayjwa wrote: > I know. I was thinking about that. 80% of this seems to be junk. It's well below 10%, I'd say, due to good filtering set up by the admin. > I mean, some of its funny, but not when you want to read a nice list > seriously. It wasn't this bad last time. Maybe a new forum/method of posting > messages would be a good idea. Has anyone thought about php bulletin board? This is an extremely bad idea. I, like doubtless many others, prefer to use my email client to write email, rather than someone else's idea of a good user interface for messaging. Forms in a web browser are simply not the right interface for a discussion list. With a mailing list like this one, the messages come to me, and I read them, and reply when I can do so helpfully. I would probably never get round to visiting a bulletin board, because I have better things to do with my time. It also makes for much less load on the server, and admins, to run a straightforward mailing list. Maybe a newsgroup would be a good idea, but I'm not sure the current, relatively low, level of traffic on this list would justify that. I do favour the list becoming subscriber-only-posting, though ... but this has been discussed previously, and decided against; xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx is the address to which people, including new users, post problems, and as such needs to be open, because it is not acceptable to expect every user who comes up against a problem with the software to subscribe to this list. Maybe I'm just getting old, and don't like these sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nut bulletin boards muscling in on good old fashioned mailing lists! People seem to think that a web browser should be the tool that's used for everything, but in many cases, it's not appropriate, and discussion lists like this one are one of those cases. -- Bill Gallafent. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
