On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Bogdan Roman wrote:
>>
>> This is another instance in which a web-based forum (as opposed to a
>> mailing-list) makes things easier as you can put rules up whenever
>> people hit the "start new thread" button, have them pinned in the
>> thread list as well, etc. I understand the mailing-list choice, and
>> I'm old-school in many respects myself, but are there any plans of
>> migrating this particular one to a web forum like many others did?
>>
>> I love it when I don't have to open a web page to start digging through
>> posts. I hope they don't take it the forum path.
>
> You can subscribe only to the threads you want to and receive notification
> only for those, rather than the entire list. This list seems pretty quiet so
> it's not that big of an issue - and yes, I know I can setup filters. I found
> that communities tend to be much bigger on web forums than on mailing-lists
> which still drive many users away. Ubuntu has greatly benefited from that
> (granted, not really a niche product).
>
A bigger community may not always be better - the s/n ratio could get
worse...
I just use the mailing list archives when I need to research stuff, really
really prefer that the mailing list itself not require posting/reading via
some web page.
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