Hi Christophe!

First: Disable HTML in your postings. It is generally bad mailinglist
netiquette, at leat on squeak-dev.

Second: This subject/discussion is a re-occurring one. Pretty much like
the yearly license thread (oops, did I just respawn it? hope not. :)).

In general I think the reasoning is that a lot of the people on
squeak-dev don't feel comfortable with web forums (including myself).
Mailinglists is a de-facto standard for most open source development
projects - sometimes complemented with web forums, but extremely
seldomly replaced by them.

We have the Swiki, we have SqP (people.squeakfoundation.org) and we have
the additional Team lists. If someone wants to set up a complimentary
web forum trying to compete with squeak-dev - feel free to do so - but
remember - people *have tried it before* and it has AFAIK always failed
simply because most of us don't have time to track both a web forum and
a list, so we just stick to the list. ;)

Some people even thought the idea to create additional lists beside
squeak-dev was a bad one - because a lot of us don't mind the traffic -
we want to keep a little eye on most things going on. The compromise was
to use additional lists for the *Teams*, but we don't create them just
for *any sub-subject*. This approach pulled a bit of the traffic off
from squeak-dev, the daily team talk could be kept with the Team
members. And the archives are there to check if anyone is interested.
All in all a good decision I think.

So... as I said, this has been discussed a lot of times and the
conclusion has always been the same - most of us like having squeak-dev
as an ml. And we can all trust it to include everything really important
(announcements are always made there etc).

Now, the above doesn't mean the conclusion (about this issue) this time
is the same - but I think it will be.

regards, Göran