What do you think about a forum?

[Jack Coates]

oh, but I do consider this and have used it as my mantra on a daily
basis for many many years. I type in Evolution now. When I go to work, I
ssh -XC to my home firewall and again to my laptop and run evolution
again. A little pokey on my 128k ADSL uplink, but if the speed is ever a
real problem I can always use something even lighter-weight like
remote-mounting my ~/evolution directory. Worst case scenario, I could
set up an IMAP client or a second POP client and tell it to never delete
email from the account. Before this setup, I was able to funnel work
mail into my evolution account and just used my personal laptop for work
too. 

Before that, I was using assorted webmail clients to access my private
mail, but it stank and I had to filter out anything non-personal.
<IMHO>This doesn't mean that mailing-lists are bad. It means that the
web is a lousy interface for processing large amounts of information in
a discussion format! What makes you think PHPBB is any better than
Squirrelmail or Yahoo Mail? The graphics are different, period.</IMHO>

Before that, I used pine, and the only thing that got me away from it
was a quality Evolution release. Yeah, pine isn't pretty and it's a Yugo
next to Mutt, but it's still a better mail agent than Outlook Express or
Mozilla Mail.

On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 09:00, Zachary Roth wrote:
> All,
> 
> I agree that e-mail is a great method. The largest disadvantage to
> e-mail for some of us IT dork types is that, personally I do not use one
> PC. At home I use one box, at work several boxes, etc; While at home I
> am on evolution, work use yahoo with pop mail to access various
> accounts, etc; 
> 
> While it is feasible to develop a "best practice" for one individual
> saving this valuable information that comes through the mailing list, I
> simply believe that centralizing intellectual properties is necessary in
> this crazy world. 
> 
> Wouldn't it be nice to have it in one place, search able, scalable and
> archive-able?
> 
> Just Something to consider. 
> 
> Zack
> 
> On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 08:30, Moritz Heiber wrote:
> > On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 07:54:36 -0700
> > Jack Coates <jack at monkeynoodle.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 06:59, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > > > sweiss3 at walla.co.il wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > >Hey all. I was wondering if maybe it's possible to have a forum
> > > > >rather than (or in edition to) the mailing list. 
> > > > >
> > > > personally I prefer mailing lists. So my preference would be "in 
> > > > addition to".
> > > 
> > > exactly. This argument has come up on several of the support
> > > communities I help out in -- basically it rages back and forth for
> > > about a week, until it becomes clear that the developers and power
> > > users are all email people and the newbies looking for help are all
> > > forum people.
> > 
> > I second that for 100%.
> >  
> > > Feel free to build a forum on your own that can be linked from the
> > > xfce.org site, but don't ask the developers to take time, and
> > > recognize the need for a bridging function to get material from the
> > > mailing lists inserted into the forum.
> > 
> > Exactly, build up a forum and we can put up a link on www.xfce.org.
> > 
> > > Jack Coates
> > 
> > Bye,
> 
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