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81. Re: Why doesn't the lua list get replaced with a forum ? (score: 34)

Author: nusret <nbalci_l@...>

Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:30:37 -0700 (PDT)

Principle of inertia in action :)... Both are fine AFAIC: I just like forums better, and so expressed my opinion. Regards. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of s

82. Re: Why doesn't the lua list get replaced with a forum ? (score: 34)

Author: "Martin Schröder" <martin@...>

Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 01:32:30 +0200

2006/9/18, nusret <nbalci_l@yahoo.com>: I vote for a forum and shutting down the mailing list. If it ain't broken, don't fix it. Forums are broken. Best Martin PS: http://www.netmeister.org/news/lear

83. Re: Why doesn't the lua list get replaced with a forum ? (score: 34)

Author: "D Burgess" <dburgess@...>

Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:11:01 +1000

Can't help but agree. DB Please, no! No no no no no! Forums are awful -- they're slow, clunky, dreadful from a usability issue, they force your users to go and get the messages rather than delivering

84. Re: Why doesn't the lua list get replaced with a forum ? (score: 34)

Author: "Alex Queiroz" <asandroq@...>

Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:32:06 -0300

Hallo, Why hasn't there been a forum set up to host all this info and discussion? There are certainly more abilities for the posters and nothing less than the mailing list,.. I don't want to have to

85. Re: Why doesn't the lua list get replaced with a forum ? (score: 34)

Author: George Petsagourakis <petsagouris@...>

Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:46:26 +0000 (UTC)

Not if the forum is in Lua and served up in Xavante, even well written php (http://www.usebb.net/) runs amazinly fast for the web,... :) Forums have evolved much from what you describe,.. RSS feeds

86. Re: Why doesn't the lua list get replaced with a forum ? (score: 34)

Author: David Given <dg@...>

Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:39:45 +0100

Please, no! No no no no no! Forums are awful -- they're slow, clunky, dreadful from a usability issue, they force your users to go and get the messages rather than delivering them to your users' inbo

87. Re: We need a forum! (score: 34)

Author: Jamie Webb <j@...>

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:12:39 +0100

You could either get a separate free account for stuff you don't want to download at home, or switch to using the NNTP or Web interfaces. -- Jamie Webb

88. Re: We need a forum! (score: 34)

Author: Francis Burton <F.L.Burton@...>

Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 15:23:09 +0100

FWIW, I concur 100% with John. Francis

89. Re: We need a forum! (score: 34)

Author: Jamie Webb <j@...>

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 15:58:31 +0100

How are they here? My god! Please tell me you're joking. What, like personal email? How does a BB change this? I've certainly noticed that BB messages are typically shorter, but that's because the sy

90. Re: We need a forum! (score: 34)

Author: Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 15:32:43 +0100

Mailing lists can do this to. So, just like with a mailing list, then? (I've just clicked reply...) Err, are you saying email can't do that? I can't remember the last 200 line email I saw on here. An

91. Re: We need a forum! (score: 34)

Author: Jamie Webb <j@...>

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:45:38 +0100

or... subscribe to the mailing list? -- Jamie Webb

92. Re: We need a forum! (score: 34)

Author: Jonathan Jacobs <korpse-lua@...>

Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:46:58 +0200

Well, what I do is set up filtering rules in my mail client so that any mailing lists I'm subscribed to have their mail "delivered" to a unique (and self-contained) "folder" (Thunderbird syntax here)

93. RE: We need a forum! (score: 34)

Author: Diego Nehab <diego@...>

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:01:22 -0400 (EDT)

Hi, Why not just remove the e-mail addresses from the archives? We could make it harder for people to find out the addresses, like requiring some kind of procedure a haverster won't be able to do. []

94. Re: We need a forum! (score: 34)

Author: Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi@...>

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 22:01:58 +0300

LuaForge (http://luaforge.net) announced some days ago contains project-wise forums. Perhaps some of this need can be filled by directing lua-thisandthat specific discussions to those forums, or mail

95. Re: We need a forum! (score: 34)

Author: Thatcher Ulrich <tu@...>

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:21:53 -0400

I'm not a fan of web forums myself. I certainly would be opposed to replacing the mailing list as the official place to discuss Lua. But, I have used some SourceForge forums on occasion, and I think

96. Re: We need a forum! (score: 34)

Author: Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@...>

Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 17:24:33 +0100

We have the Wiki on http://lua-users.org/wiki/ I guess we should gather more info there. D.

97. We need a forum! (score: 34)

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

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:23:03 -0500

I have been mostly a passive subscriber to this list for the last year. The volume of useful information that comes through this list is amazing. And yet, it is lost to the email archives, making it

98. Re: Lua Forum (score: 33)

Author: Paul Merrell <marbux@...>

Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 21:23:08 -0800

Because I didn't have Maksumic's email address.

99. Forum Page Temporarily Unavailable (score: 33)

Author: Renhold Akerlow <akerlow@...>

Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:22:37 -0400

Past week or two numerous attempts have been made to access Lua.org's forums from two separate computers.  I've been met with the same message stating the page is unavailable.  Is the website under c

100. Re: Lua forum is down - once again (score: 33)

Author: ketmar <ketmar@...>

Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:53:21 +0300

and what's the difference? anyway forums sent notifications via e-mail. so why don't use e-mail for all communications?