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41. RE: We need a forum! (score: 36)

Author: Paul Smith <paullocal@...>

Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 08:54:06 +0100

I find mailing lists convenient in that they are essentially passive. I don't have to routinely check the forum, hitting F5 every 5 minutes for new posts. It's all "automatic" with a mailing list. Be

42. RE: We need a forum! (score: 36)

Author: Vat Raghavan <machinshin2002@...>

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:35:49 -0700 (PDT)

Hello all, long time lurker here :) I must say i agree with Jonathan. A forum would be redundant. We have this mailing list, a wiki for 'long term' knowledge and if you need help immediately there is

43. Re: We need a forum! (score: 36)

Author: "Jason Murdick" <osiris@...>

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:30:16 -0700

A wiki is really not what Michael was suggesting, if I may be so bold as to interpret his initial post. He is suggesting a real forum, with threads that are organized, user accounts, and a real searc

44. Lua Forum (score: 35)

Author: Paul Merrell <marbux@...>

Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 18:53:55 -0800

Sorry for invading this list for a Lua Forum problem. Maksumic, the forum software isn't buying my password and there doesn't appear to be any way to request a password reset. Would you please fix th

45. Re: Forum Page Temporarily Unavailable (score: 35)

Author: Jayanth Acharya <jayachar88@...>

Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:14:17 +0530

Lua.org's forums?  I didn't think there was a forum on lua.org: what's the precisely URL you are trying to access? B.

46. [ANN] Lua Forum + Mailing List Announcements (score: 35)

Author: Stefan <stefan@...>

Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:58:41 -0800

Just a heads up, the Lua forum at LuaHUB is now carrying the [ANN] from this mailing list. This post also serves as the import script's (written in Lua of course) test. The email subject is filtered

47. Re: Lua forum is down - once again (score: 35)

Author: Eike Decker <eike@...>

Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:04:21 +0200

Ok, that sounds reasonable. Would be great. On what other wrote: I didn't want to start a "is the mailing list better than a forum" discussion, I simply wondered why the forum is not hosted on the "

48. Re: Lua forum is down - once again (score: 35)

Author: ketmar <ketmar@...>

Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:24:20 +0300

so you can accidentally miss something interesting. %-) any good e-mail client supports threading, which is much better than "flat" structure of most forums, i think. and i really can't think out why

49. Re: Lua forum is down - once again (score: 35)

Author: Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@...>

Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:16:44 +0100

The simple reason is that lua-users and lua.org are both hosted on a web host (Pepperfish) which refuses to host PHP sites due to the inherent danger and hideous security issues presented by attempti

50. Re: Lua forum is down - once again (score: 35)

Author: Jan Schütze <JanS@...>

Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:53:01 +0200

Hi a while back I set up Lua Forums at a new domain called http://luanet.net , it was used for sa-mp related lua inqueries so far, but maybe some others might want to ask there simple questions, too?

51. Lua forum is down - once again (score: 35)

Author: Eike Decker <eike@...>

Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:50:08 +0200

Hi The forum has been down since Monday (http://www.icynorth.com/forums/index.php) - thought they'd fix it someday but it hasn't happened yet. Next to that I always wanted to ask why there's no forum

52. Re: Why doesn't the lua list get replaced with a forum ? (score: 35)

Author: Dave Dodge <dododge@...>

Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:06:44 -0400

Same here. I do read some web-based forums regularly (using various backend software) and just dealing with the interface to find unread messages can be a time sink. For most things I much prefer a m

53. Re: Why doesn't the lua list get replaced with a forum ? (score: 35)

Author: "Bruce O. Benson" <bbenson@...>

Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:33:50 -0400

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54. Re: Re: Why doesn't the lua list get replaced with a forum ? (score: 35)

Author: "Andy Jones" <shadowfirebird@...>

Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:22:06 +0100

Please don't remove the mailing list! I don't. I actually find forums rather weird to read, as they usually don't have proper threading support, and also lack some other features a proper mail client

55. Re: Re: Why doesn't the lua list get replaced with a forum ? (score: 35)

Author: "Gunnar Zötl"<gz@...>

Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:55:34 +0200 (MEST)

I don't. I actually find forums rather weird to read, as they usually don't have proper threading support, and also lack some other features a proper mail client offers. Of course, this is just me,

56. Re: Why doesn't the lua list get replaced with a forum ? (score: 35)

Author: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>

Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:29:48 -0300

There is a Lua forum with subcategories at http://www.icynorth.com/forums/index.php?c=8 but the mailing list remains the main focal point of the Lua community. --lhf

57. Why doesn't the lua list get replaced with a forum ? (score: 35)

Author: George Petsagourakis <petsagouris@...>

Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:09:42 +0000 (UTC)

Hello first time post here,... I am using Lua for scripting a Direct Connect Hub Server, PtokaX (http://www.ptokax.org/) and I had been watching the lua list day to day and I find it pretty limited,

58. Forum of LUA in portuguese (score: 35)

Author: viriato goa <viriato_amigo@...>

Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:47:23 -0800 (PST)

Forum of LUA in portuguese. http://www.LUA.gratison.com Forum for programmers of LUA for spreading in Brazil, Portugal and too much countries of Portuguese language. Programmers of other languages al

59. Re: We need a forum! (score: 35)

Author: "Michael Cumming" <Mike@...>

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 23:44:23 -0500

Well, we could debate the relative merits of one means of communicating versus another to no end. The fact is that mail lists are in decline and the reasons are obvious. The replies are on the list a

60. Re: We need a forum! (I can give one) (score: 35)

Author: Alexandre Ribeiro de Sá <alex_r@...>

Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 22:49:09 -0300

AHOY! I give mirror for Lua in my site, I can give a forum too... I'll wait answer... Alexandre Ribeiro de Sá alex_r@vortexentertainment.com http://www.vortexentertainment.com I have been mostly a pa