A real forum for Squeak
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Mon Oct 10 18:02:55 UTC 2005
I agree.
So people should try and learn and may be this can work.
Stef
On 10 oct. 05, at 19:24, tim Rowledge wrote:
> My experience is that all the web fororae I have tried to follow
> have been a pain in the neck.
> a) you have to be online to see them
> b) you have to remember to go there, look for stuff etc.
> c) they degenerate too often into nests of html postings
> d) it's too easy to not even notice stuff that would be interesting
>
> Mail lists arrive automagically with all my other mail. Filters and
> rules put messages in (roughly) the right places. I scan them to
> delete or keep, getting an idea of the current gestalt of the
> community.
>
> Essentially, move to a web forum and you'd lose my involvement.
> Whether that is a good thing or not is for you to say. I suspect
> you'd loses a lot of other people too.
>
> On the other had a web forum typically makes a good interface to
> archives, which has some advantages. Why can't we have both? Surely
> there is a way to have a web forum accept the feed from the
> maillist and have it do the sorting? If there isn't, then go away
> and write one. I would note that there is apparently a GMane
> newsgroup shadow of the squeak list. See http://
> minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/608 for details.
>
> Oh, and as for having polls - forget it. If anyone thinks that I'd
> take any notice of a poll over the (small) number of people whose
> opinion I value when doing VMMaker work... well, maybe they need to
> stop sniffing the glue.
>
>
> tim
> --
> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
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