On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, William Gallafent wrote: > Subject: Re: [XFree86] Never realized this is an open list > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, jayjwa wrote: > > 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. PHP BB is a very popular format, used by business and individuals alike to discuss all kinds of topics. It's feature rich, and supports many, many things a standard mailing list could never. People seem to be against web browsers, and don't wish to use them for anything but viewing a plain, staight-forward webpage. If you've used a form such as PHP BB, you'll see it's not that bad at all! Millions of people can't be wrong, check out a good, well-maintained form and you'll see what I mean. I too like the mailing list format, I just startup Pine, and start reading- no firing up major graphics apps for that. I guess it comes down to a matter of personal taste, and everyone is entitled to their own. I made the suggestion based on what I had observed of people's reations to the BB, and my own expirience (which has been positive). And it was only that, a suggestion. > > 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. Now I can see the reasoning in this. It seems this list has I pretty quick turn-over rate- alot of the people that post are gone for good after their question/trouble is solved, with new people coming in to take their place. > > 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. You protested when the GUI was invented, didn't you? ; ) ---------------- -jayjwa Reg. Linux user #207147 PGPKey: http://atr2.ath.cx/jayjwa.asc Spambox: jayjwa@xxxxxxxxxxx -- 4 Spammers: listme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The New Atr2: http://atr2.ath.cx/ _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
