El 24/07/2010 13:15, Ivan Shmakov escribió:
Frederic Muller <- SFI <fred@softwarefreedomday.org>> writes:
Dear all,
We've been considering a move to using a forum as our main discussion platform based on the following reasons:
- More open and visible - Searchable - Mailing list are usually for developers. Our community is definitely not developers oriented - Better for search engines indexing - More pleasant to read - And you get to add a little icon for yourself ;-)
Could you please take a look at http://gmane.org/ instead? It offers both Web and NNTP interfaces for quite a lot of mailing lists already, and my opinion is that it solves all of the issues above (including the icons.)
+1 (gmane) Mailman is the best for Events community organization. Forum work fine for Help desk community, etc..
Though I understand that I speak for a minority, there are users that find mailing lists (newsgroups) much more convenient to use than Web forums. Also, Web forums are typically plainly painful to use with, say, Lynx (thanks to, e. g., Javascript and Captcha), and it's the browser of choice for some eager free software proponents. (And, IIUC, it's of much more value to a visually-impaired person than any “modern-style” browser.)
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