Re: We need a forum!

[Jonathan Jacobs <korpse-lua@...>]

Paul Smith wrote:
> Personally, for Lua, I'd prefer a discussion board, as I'd prefer not to 
> be bombarded with messages all day every day about it, since it's not a 
> key part of my work. Most of the messages from the Lua mailing list I 

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). That way when 
mail comes in all I have to see is which folders have new mail, hardly 
what I'd consider being "bombarded", and yet extremely convenient.

> A lot of discussion boards have a "subscription" model where you can 
> subscribe to the particular forums you want, and then all messages to 
> that forum get mailed out to you, so you get the benefits of both ways.

One of the "features" I like about mailing lists is that it's easy to 
participate in; getting, storing, archiving, searching, etc. messages is 
all up to my mail client, and replying (keeping threads etc. in tact) is 
essentially a keystroke. I know with mutt you even get the added bonus 
of using your text editor of choice and it's all essentially very little 
bandwidth usage; minus the bains of having broken international access 
(yes, that happens here with nauseating frequency).

Perhaps if you find mailing lists a pain, you should consider Edgar's 
advice of getting to know your mail client?

(on the side, I've noticed whenever I send something to the mailing list 
I get a bounce message from some or the other company [I've actually 
deleted the message now, so I can't give precise details] mentioning 
that such-and-such an address no longer exists for whatever reason. 
Could we by any chance remove that address?)

Regards
--
Jonathan Jacobs
Developer