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On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Victor Martin Ulloa
Why are we using a 90's mailing list? Why not a modern phpBB web forum?
Because GNU Mailman is written in Python where as phpBB is written in...that other language :P More seriously, mailinglists/newsgroups let everyone follow all the conversations that are going on, whereas in forums there's no way (that I've ever heard of) to "subscribe" to all the topics automatically. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 06:12:26PM +0000, Victor Martin Ulloa wrote:
Why are we using a 90's mailing list? Why not a modern phpBB web forum?
Sometimes... very often, actually... old things are better than new things. The advantages of mailing list over a web forum: -- a mailing list uses "push technology" - new messages arrived in my mailbox, and I can read them or archive them or do what I want; in a web forum I have to hunt for new messages, and don't have a way to archive selected messages; -- I can read mailbox with whatever program I like; for a web forum full of broken HTML, crippled CSS and stupid Javascript I have to use one of those bloated web browsers; -- most mailing lists these days are processed by The Python Mailing List Manager (mailman); using PHP-based software for a Python-related web forum would give users a wrong signal. Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ phd@phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
In article <20081017182941.GA3525@phd.pp.ru>,
Oleg Broytmann
Why are we using a 90's mailing list? Why not a modern phpBB web forum? Sometimes... very often, actually... old things are better than new
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 06:12:26PM +0000, Victor Martin Ulloa wrote: things. The advantages of mailing list over a web forum: -- a mailing list uses "push technology" - new messages arrived in my mailbox, and I can read them or archive them or do what I want; in a web forum I have to hunt for new messages, and don't have a way to archive selected messages; -- I can read mailbox with whatever program I like; for a web forum full of broken HTML, crippled CSS and stupid Javascript I have to use one of those bloated web browsers; -- most mailing lists these days are processed by The Python Mailing List Manager (mailman); using PHP-based software for a Python-related web forum would give users a wrong signal.
-- ... and there already exists a web form interface (plus a NNTP newsreader interface and an RSS interface): http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.ideas -- Ned Deily, nad@acm.org
Victor Martin Ulloa
Why are we using a 90's mailing list? Why not a modern phpBB web forum?
Most people pay more attention while replying to an email that replying to a forum post :) At least I don't see many emails containing just "LOL, me too". On a serious note as others have pointed out, email acts as a data exchange format so you can use any interface you like. e.g. for a forum like interface you can look at http://groups.google.com/group/python-ideas/topics
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Victor Martin Ulloa
Why are we using a 90's mailing list? Why not a modern phpBB web forum?
I like email that I can read with whatever program I want, and of which you can view the archives with whatever program you want. -- Cheers, Leif
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