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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 05:50:04PM +0000, Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 04:28:00PM +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, John Clarke wrote: > > > > > is there a website forum for this list ? > > > Just wondered if there is, where is it? > > > if there isn't - is there a reason why not ? > > > seems like the list would lend itself to that nicely... > > > > Forums are the work of the devil for those who can't type nor use a decent > > email program. > > > > Sorry to be blunt, but I hate forums and only use them when I'm absolutely > > forced into it. > > > > I have the means to sort, search, file and otherwise handle email using my > > preferred platforms - forums are slow, clunky, bloaty and otherwise > > unwieldy compared to my super fast, lightweight and slick email system. > > > > I used to run many mailing lists - and fortunately, a few still remain. I > > watched them be taken over by forums and the overall quality of postings > > dropped dramatically. Rather than one of 2 specialist mailing lists (Scuba > > related - another passion of mine), now there are dozes of forums and it's > > impossible to track all of them. One, I even host a dedicated server for > > and I'm utterly gob-smacked at the bandwidth it uses - especially on the > > incoming side - punters are sitting there hitting reload, reload, reload, > > reload, Ooh, a posting, best post a 2-line reply... reload, reload, > > reload, reload, .. etc. Lifes too short. > > > > Email comes to me, I can deal with it when I need to, I have a decent > > editor, not some bloated javascript POS, etc. blah, blah. > > Hm, are you reading my mind? This is exactly my argument in favour of > mailing lists (or one of them, anyway) -- I don't have to remember to > check back every so often to see if there's an answer, it just ends up > in my mail directory. I'm on dozens of mailing lists -- a couple of > LUGs, quite a few Debian ones, and various others. I'd hate to have to > check dozens of websites on a daily (or even weekly) basis just to keep > up with them. > > I hate forums with a passion. They do nothing that mailing lists or > Usenet don't do, and they do it in a way that locks you into a single > interface. If you must do this sort of thing, a web interface to a > newsgroup or mailing list would be the best solution. They also seem to > be a common source of security problems - everybody writes their own > forum, reinventing the wheel and full of the same SQL injection and XSS > problems as all the others. > Can't second this, about thirded? -- Henry Photocopies or faxes of my signature are not binding. This email has been signed with an electronic signature in accordance with subsection 7(3) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000. Digital Key Signature: GPG RSA 0xFB447AA1 Wed Jan 28 20:28:10 GMT 2009
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