On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:00:21 -0800 From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...983...> Reply-To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Kodoichi <formicula@...155...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] layer dialog, windows, and mailing lists versus forums
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:36:59PM -0500, mental@...32... wrote:
Quoting Kodoichi <formicula@...155...>:
- Wouldn't it be more comfortable for us user to set up a
message board on inkscape.org instead of a nerdy mailing list that fills up mailboxes with unwanted discussions?
I'd strongly encourage you to get a real email client. Webmail has been a giant leap backwards and it is no wonder there is a generation of people who prefer dealing with web formums. You'd also think by now it would be easier to setup a combined mailing list, news group and web archive (2 out of 3 aint bad but the web interface on sourceforge doesn't allow posting).
It's much less likely you'd get answers from real developers (like me) if we had a forum instead of a mailing list.
For high-volume stuff, asynchronous notification (email) is the only way to go. Having to constantly check to see whether anyone's posted anything new on the web forum means that most busy people (particularly developers) won't read it.
As it happens, we do have Forums available for Inkscape:
Gmane is also an option and it provides all kinds of ways to interact with the list which may be more to your liking: http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.user http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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