Re: We need a forum!

[Jamie Webb <j@...>]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:54:06AM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> At 18:34 01/07/2004, korpse-lua@kaydash.za.net wrote:
> >Jason Murdick wrote:
> >> 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 search utility. Something such as phpBB
> >> if I am not
> >> mistaken.
> >>
> >> I would have to agree with him. I'm not a big fan of mailing lists,
> >> preferring discussion boards instead.
> >
> >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. Besides, your mail client
> >is a lot more featureful than a BB could be (I'm not an avid BB user, so I
> >am open to correction) for instance sorting and filtering.
> 
> I like mailing lists for some things, and discussion boards for others.
> 
> 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 tend to 
> just send to the trash. (and now we've found a decent spam filter service, 
> most of the messages I get are from 3 or 4 mailing lists, the Lua, SQLite 
> and ACCU ones being the most active, so being able to cut down on those 
> would make my life easier ;-) ).

Sounds to me like you ought to investigate Gmane, using either the Web
or NNTP interfaces. What does this not provide that you want?

> I don't want to unsubscribe, in case I do 
> want to get involved.

It's pretty easy to unsubscribe and then subscribe again, or use the
'vacation' setting to turn off delivery for a while.

-- Jamie Webb