Re: Some thoughts about this mailing list

[Russell Haley <russ.haley@...>]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 8:35 AM, jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 November 2016 at 05:20, Geoff Smith <spammealot1@live.co.uk> wrote:
>> I cant think of any arguments against a message board format, apart from it
>> would take some time and effort to set this up. I would be interested to
>> hear other peoples opinions about this and why it hasnt already happened ?
>> Am I in the minority with this point of view ?
>
>
> maintenance on such a forum would take away time from someone to manage it.
>
> I can't help be repeat the same message from the link Luiz posted:
>
> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-09/msg00491.html
> ---
> 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' inboxes...
>
> If you absolutely must have a webforum-like interface, then try checking out
> the GMANE gateway to the mailing list:
>
> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general

Page Not Found

A search for lua on the home page gives a "not found" page indicating
they are in the midst of a rebuild apparently. I know the original
maintaner talked about walking away, I don't know what ever became of
it:

http://home.gmane.org/


Russ