On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 04:37:45PM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote: > On 13:28 Mon 26 Jul , Kevin Jardine wrote: > > On Jul 26, 10:10 pm, Evan Laforge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Interesting, I've never figured out why some people prefer forums, but > > > you're proof that they exist :) > > > > This debate is eerily similar to several others I've seen (for > > example, on the interactive fiction mailing list). > > > > In every case I've seen, a web forum vs. mailing list debate has been > > pointless at best and sometimes turned into a flame war. I think that > > it's best for people who prefer a web forum to establish one and use > > it, and for those who prefer the mailing list approach to continue to > > use that. > > It seems to me, then, that a wine-like web forum <-> mailing list > gateway would satisfy everyone without fragmenting the community? > > See http://forum.winehq.org/viewforum.php?f=2.
There already is an NNTP <-> mailing list gateway via gmane that gives a nice forumy and threaded web interface for those with insufficient email readers. Adding a completely different interface seems unnecessary and fragmentary. http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ - http://notanumber.net/ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
