Re: forum vs email

2015-02-19 Thread thufir
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:31:53 +0100, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: > I use nntp newsgroups, in a very simple threaded mode, I "subscribe" > interesting groups and look at them once a day or sometimes more > frequently. I skim through thread titles, expand the interesting ones, > read the messages, then

Re: forum vs email

2014-12-17 Thread Ruben Safir
they are no indexing usenet any longer which is a real problem because of volumns of archival information on them from everything from SQL theory to networking commands. It is depressing almost as depressing as the university library with stacks of books on the floors pushed away to make ro

Re: forum vs email

2014-12-12 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
True; and before that there was yahoo groups, and others. Those are not fora, however, merely web interfaces to mailing lists / newsgroups. as a lurker on this list, I jump in. It is curious that newsgroups are mentioned only en passant, and NNTP is not mentioned at all. Still vastly prefer e

回复: Re: forum vs email

2014-12-11 Thread xiangdongzou
DEAR guys: I think Email is good for search and I can download to my moible device. 2014-12-11 I AM AN ORACLE FANS! Skype:Frank.oracle Email:xiangdong...@gmail.com Name:东东堂 发件人:Mark Goodge 发送时间:2014-12-11 17:23 主题:Re: forum vs email 收件人:"mysql" 抄送: On 10/12/2014 23:

Re: forum vs email

2014-12-11 Thread Johan De Meersman
- Original Message - > From: "Sándor Halász" > Subject: Re: forum vs email > Something more sophisticated than grouping messages by trimmed subject-lines? > maybe involving such header lines as were used in the old netnews (if e-mail > is That's only a sin

Re: forum vs email

2014-12-11 Thread Mark Goodge
On 10/12/2014 23:40, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 10.12.2014 um 18:38 schrieb h...@tbbs.net: 2014/12/10 09:00 +0100, Johan De Meersman One of the (for me, at least) defining features of a forum, is that the subjects tend to be divided up into a tree structure, which has it's own benefits

Re: forum vs email

2014-12-10 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 10.12.2014 um 18:38 schrieb h...@tbbs.net: 2014/12/10 09:00 +0100, Johan De Meersman One of the (for me, at least) defining features of a forum, is that the subjects tend to be divided up into a tree structure, which has it's own benefits Something more sophisticate

Re: forum vs email

2014-12-10 Thread hsv
2014/12/10 09:00 +0100, Johan De Meersman One of the (for me, at least) defining features of a forum, is that the subjects tend to be divided up into a tree structure, which has it's own benefits Something more sophisticated than grouping messages by trimmed subject-

Re: forum vs email [was: Re: table-for-column]

2014-12-10 Thread Jigal van Hemert
Hi, On 10/12/2014 10:09, Johan De Meersman wrote: Hm. Typo3 is a CMS; I take it the integration you're speaking of is specific to their support environment, and not part of the CMS? Correct, TYPO3 is a CMS (also FOSS GPL2+) and the integration is indeed not part of the CMS. See my other repl

Re: forum vs email [was: Re: table-for-column]

2014-12-10 Thread Jigal van Hemert
Hi, On 10/12/2014 09:02, Johan De Meersman wrote: - Original Message - From: "Jigal van Hemert" Subject: Re: forum vs email [was: Re: table-for-column] On typo3.org there used to be mailing lists only in a distant past. Later on newsgroups were set up which communicat

Re: forum vs email [was: Re: table-for-column]

2014-12-10 Thread Johan De Meersman
- Original Message - > From: "Johan De Meersman" > Sent: Wednesday, 10 December, 2014 09:02:45 > Subject: Re: forum vs email [was: Re: table-for-column] > Hmm. That sounds interesting, I'll have a look. I don't suppose the software > is > availabl

Re: forum vs email [was: Re: table-for-column]

2014-12-10 Thread Johan De Meersman
- Original Message - > From: "Jigal van Hemert" > Subject: Re: forum vs email [was: Re: table-for-column] > > On typo3.org there used to be mailing lists only in a distant past. > Later on newsgroups were set up which communicate with the mailing lists >

Re: forum vs email

2014-12-10 Thread Johan De Meersman
- Original Message - > From: "Sándor Halász" > Subject: Re: forum vs email > I believ that one could both by e-mail and through a webbrowser comment on a > Google group. True; and before that there was yahoo groups, and others. Those are not fora, however, me

Re: forum vs email

2014-12-09 Thread shawn l.green
On 12/9/2014 9:10 PM, h...@tbbs.net wrote: 2014/12/09 15:20 -0600, Peter Brawley Nope. And why not? Because no one bothered to implement it? Now I (for the first time?) looked at "forums.mysql.com" and see more topics than on "lists.mysql.com". The former is just more with-it,

Re: forum vs email

2014-12-09 Thread hsv
2014/12/09 15:20 -0600, Peter Brawley Nope. And why not? Because no one bothered to implement it? Now I (for the first time?) looked at "forums.mysql.com" and see more topics than on "lists.mysql.com". The former is just more with-it, I guess. I believ that one could both by e

Re: forum vs email

2014-12-09 Thread Peter Brawley
On 2014-12-09 9:55 AM, Johan De Meersman wrote: - Original Message - From: "Sándor Halász" Subject: Re: forum vs email That is, this list, right? What does it lack (besides readers)? This list interacts with the forums on mysql.com? Nope. PB - Every thread here m

Re: forum vs email

2014-12-09 Thread Johan De Meersman
- Original Message - > From: "Sándor Halász" > Subject: Re: forum vs email > That is, this list, right? What does it lack (besides readers)? This list interacts with the forums on mysql.com? Every thread here matches one on there, and vice versa? (Honest question;

Re: forum vs email

2014-12-06 Thread Mogens Melander
Just to pitch in, on this rather weird discussion. I've been on the MySQL pretty much from day one. I started on mSQL and transferred to MySQL when Monty took that corner. I'm probably not the only one, lurking in the shadows. On Sat, December 6, 2014 17:33, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 06.12.201

Re: forum vs email [was: Re: table-for-column]

2014-12-06 Thread Michael Dykman
I have been a resident of this list for a very long time. In the early days, this was the only place to get reliable information about what was then a relatively obscure database system. Now, local and online bookstores have shelves full of books, many of them authored by list regulars. We have exp

Re: forum vs email [was: Re: table-for-column]

2014-12-06 Thread Jigal van Hemert
Hi, On 05/12/2014 20:54, Jan Steinman wrote: From: Johan De Meersman I've long wanted to - but never quite got around to - write a forum that integrated a mailing list. Bar mail clients that don't handle list threads well, it really doesn't seem such a difficult task. There actually seem to

Re: forum vs email

2014-12-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 06.12.2014 um 16:53 schrieb h...@tbbs.net: 2014/12/06 12:51 +0100, Johan De Meersman I want: * The entire post, and as little notification-type content as possible, * headers and subjects so that mail clients that support threading will thread everything from a single forum topic i

Re: forum vs email

2014-12-06 Thread hsv
2014/12/06 12:51 +0100, Johan De Meersman I want: * The entire post, and as little notification-type content as possible, * headers and subjects so that mail clients that support threading will thread everything from a single forum topic in a mail thread and vice versa, * and, most im

Re: forum vs email [was: Re: table-for-column]

2014-12-06 Thread Johan De Meersman
- Original Message - > From: "Jan Steinman" > Subject: Re: forum vs email [was: Re: table-for-column] > There actually seem to be a lot of these around. I'm on several that send me > email when there are new forum postings. Yes, that bit is pretty standard

Re: forum vs email [was: Re: table-for-column]

2014-12-05 Thread hsv
2014/12/04 22:56 -0500, shawn l.green I guess this email-based peer-to-peer exchange is slowly disappearing into the background like the old usenet newsgroups, eh? And _I_ like using an off-line e-mail client, and not being bothered by going through a webbrowser--but I suspect

Re: forum vs email [was: Re: table-for-column]

2014-12-05 Thread Jan Steinman
> From: Johan De Meersman > > I've long wanted to - but never quite got around to - write a forum that > integrated a mailing list. Bar mail clients that don't handle list threads > well, it really doesn't seem such a difficult task. There actually seem to be a lot of these around. I'm on seve