Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Forum

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 04:37:45PM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:

On 13:28 Mon 26 Jul , Kevin Jardine wrote:

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On Jul 26, 10:10 pm, Evan Laforge wrote:

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Interesting, I've never figured out why some people prefer forums, but you're proof that they exist :)  

This debate is eerily similar to several others I've seen (for example, on the interactive fiction mailing list).

In every case I've seen, a web forum vs. mailing list debate has been pointless at best and sometimes turned into a flame war. I think that it's best for people who prefer a web forum to establish one and use it, and for those who prefer the mailing list approach to continue to use that.

It seems to me, then, that a wine-like web forum <-> mailing list gateway would satisfy everyone without fragmenting the community?

See http://forum.winehq.org/viewforum.php?f=2.

There already is an NNTP <-> mailing list gateway via gmane that gives a nice forumy and threaded web interface for those with insufficient email readers. Adding a completely different interface seems unnecessary and fragmentary. http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ - http://notanumber.net/