podperson wrote:
I know there are people who (for some reason) prefer mailing lists to actual forums, but I'd like to cast my vote for a proper forum.
podperson wrote:
A very reasonable preference, especially since I have *never* encountered a mailing list where *everything* is interesting.
Okay, your post, and its trolling follow-ups have now created a nice flame-war. You have effectively reduced the signal:noise ratio of this mailing list, and showed that even mailing lists might need moderation sometimes. Are you satisfied?
Nigel Metheringham wrote:
Frankly forums are implemented by people who misunderstand mailing lists.
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And that’s not all they misunderstood. Ever looked at various forum markup syntaxes?
Alaric Snell-Pym wrote:
As *everybody* who deserves access to any form of communication system capable of transmitting messages further than a hundred metres knows, the only correct Internet discussion system is Usenet.
Duh.
That’s certainly how I access this list. :-)
-Jacob