16 Jun
2004
16 Jun
'04
6:31 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 02:28:29PM -0400, Them wrote:
Pete Bessman wrote:
My other concern with forums is that you have no access to archives
if the site goes down. With mailing lists, there tend to be copies all
over the place... if a server crash eats an archive, users can usually be
found who have local archives.
I wouldn't want to see anything like this happen to lad / lau:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/15/2354258&mode=thread&tid…
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Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com
On technical merits I think it's mostly a
matter of personal
preference, but I think a forum is objectively more amenable to a
casual reader than mailing lists en masse.
For things like user support issues, an online forum (or a well-threaded
mailing list archive) is definitely the way to go. For developers,
though, where casual reading and serendipitous support needs are not as
important, I think a mailing list works better, especially for things
like sharing patches and CVS commit updates.