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.
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> 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.
>
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> tim
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