Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

2015-01-28 Thread Jacob Ritorto
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 5:09 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: > > That said, the steady withering of this project since Oracle withdrew > support makes it all kind of moot; a dozen or so email messages a week > isn't much of a burden. At this point I view it as a historic preservation > project, which I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

2015-01-28 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:53 PM, James Carlson wrote: > Indeed. That's mostly as a side-effect of all those developers setting > up little Facebook-like forum fiefdoms. I hate having to visit 100 of > these just to keep up, so I don't. If it comes to me via email (for > which I've subscribed),

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

2015-01-28 Thread James Carlson
On 01/28/15 14:28, David Brodbeck wrote: > I'm quite aware of how newsgroups work; I started out reading them in "tin" > in college. You're forgetting that it also needs an ISP with a working > news server, which is increasingly rare. Actually, no, it doesn't. It's trivial to set up a stand-alon

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

2015-01-28 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Nikola M wrote: > > I think it breaks down mostly between "people that know how to use mail > client", valuing their privacy and people who just "click" on someone's > proprietary services, depending on someone else for use of even basic > services on internet. >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

2015-01-28 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
The next room is still invaded. Dmitry Kozhinov wrote: >/ Privacy is keyword here. I consider constant delivery of discussion to />/ my email as intrusion. / That's what auto-foldering is for - have your mail client automatically move it to an openindiana folder so you don't see it until you w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

2015-01-28 Thread Daniel Kjar
Because when a person searches for help using oi you end up scrolling through email lists which is not conducive to posting questions and it makes it feel like a closed discussion. It also makes it feel like a dead project. If it were not dead why wouldn't you be us I g a forum? Personally I like

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

2015-01-28 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Dmitry Kozhinov wrote: Privacy is keyword here. I consider constant delivery of discussion to my email as intrusion. That's what auto-foldering is for - have your mail client automatically move it to an openindiana folder so you don't see it until you want to. -- Andrew __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

2015-01-28 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
Privacy is keyword here. I consider constant delivery of discussion to my email as intrusion. I think it breaks down mostly between "people that know how to use mail client", valuing their privacy ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-di