Dragaera

Mailing list vs. forum (was: warning to newbies)

Matthew Klahn mklahn at mac.com
Tue Feb 10 10:35:50 PST 2004

On Feb 9, 2004, at 22:01 , David Maxwell wrote:
> In a discussion forum where many people read your message, it's only
> decent of you to put some time into editing things down to a pure form.
> Quoting two screenfuls of previous messages doesn't help anyone - 
> that's
> what the archives are for.

You know, I've wondered for the past couple of days if the mailing list 
might be better presented in some form of web forum, like phpbb or 
ubbthreads. I say this not so that we can have picture sigs or any of 
that crap, but rather just that it would be much easier to trim out 
stuff and might make reading a particular thread a little nicer. Also, 
if you ignore an entire thread, you don't have to delete it from your 
Inbox. I know that most people won't like this suggestion, but it 
occurred to me. Oh, and, you can do things like password protect the 
forums and have people have to register to post, etc. so that you don't 
have trouble with bots posting, etc.

Thoughts, opinions, flames? Btw, I do appreciate having this mailing 
list, and I also appreciate the people that make it possible. I'm not 
trying to offend anyone or raise any hackles, but just wondering 
something outloud... err... in text.

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Matthew S. Klahn
Software Architect, CodeTek Studios, Inc.
http://www.codetek.com