[mythtv-users] Re: Need for a real forum?

[James L. Paul]

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On Wednesday 10 December 2003 09:27, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 December 2003 02:07 pm, Andy wrote:
> > I, for one, would welcome that! I absolutely hate mailing lists!
>
> And I, for one, absolutely hate web-based forums.  I will not officially
> support one.
>
> Isaac

I'm in agreement for purposes such as this. Everybody has their own 
preferences of course. Here are mine:

There should be one "official" forum. This seems to be it, and I have little 
interest in participating in a forum where the primary developers are absent.

I realize it may be old-school thinking, but mailing lists are exactly suited 
to this purpose. Web forums are IMHO a clumsy attempt to emulate the same 
type of function, but with more overhead, less flexibility, and significant 
security vulnerability.

I don't want to have to "go to the forum" all the time to see what's up, I 
want to list to come to me. I want to have offline archive access and my 
choice of interface. Instead of having to go visit web forums all day, I have 
all my lists come to one place all nice and organized. Each to our own ways, 
I guess. I prefer mail lists to forums.
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