On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 08:13:31PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Jules Bean wrote:
I find it incredibly surprising whenever I discover than an otherwise sophisticated community has adopted a bulletin board rather than email ;)
Erm... why?
Conversely, a bulletin board cannot be read offline, traps users into a single UI (in every case I've used, slow, ugly, and lacking in functionality) over which they have no control.
Oh... I suppose.
Still, a newsreader doesn't appear to have those limitations.
I'd like to add that I simply don't have a powerful enough computer to run the bloatware browsers that most web-apps seem to require. So if you move to a pure web forum system, you lose me as well as Aaron.
Modern email programs have sophisticated sorting, filtering, scoring, processes and they allow me to read messages while offline, search them locally, etc etc. They have customisable key bindings, they allow me to read all of my mailing lists in one place, they are scriptable, may support plugins... all of this under full user control.
I'd just prefer not to have to wait through 100 emails a day to find the few that interest me. With a newsreader, I can simply mark "ignore" on the threads that don't interest me, and I'm done.
Why don't you just subscribe to one of the NNTP groups that is 2-way gatewayed with haskell-cafe? I can't imagine it being that hard, and it would fix all of your problems. Stefan