Kurt Hutchinson wrote:
Let those interested in a web forum set one up and run it. Those interested in email can ignore the web forum.
My concern about introducing a web forum would be that it is yet another place I have to search every time I need information (besides the haskell report, compiler docs and tracker, 2 wikis and the mailing lists :) So setting up a web forum would only be good if it can do something a mailing list cannot do. Following things were mentioned before: - ease of starting new topics. Maybe. I personally end up searching through all topics in forums anyway, because people often tend to post in a "wrong" topic :) Christian Neumann before mentioned that mailman might support topics as well. Also IMHO the current division of mailing lists (general, café, libraries, etc.) is exactly right for organizing and separating information. - searchability. I wouldn't agree - I can download the whole contents of a mailing list from gmane and search it in my mail client - goes way faster than in a forum. - ease of access. But preventing spam would probably require subscription just as for a mailing list. Any more advantages of a forum? Cheers, Misha