On 11/24/2013 12:04 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, Yihui Xie wrote:
Mailing lists are good for a smaller group of people, and especially
good when more focused on discussions on development (including bug
reports). The better place for questions is a web forum.
I disagree. Mail lists push messages to subscribers while web fora
require
one to use a browser, log in, then pull messages. Not nearly as convenient.
Rich
With the StackOverflow model, you can either view the list of posts
related to a specific tag via RSS, or subscribe for email notification
of new updates on that topic.
Add in the added bonus of the ability to moderate and/or cull spam and
redundant questions, etc. and the targeted focus of a SO-type forum
increases dramatically IMHO.
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