Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:
On Friday 14 March 2008 16:06:31 Per Jessen wrote:
Good - it was of course a joke. I may never understand why many people prefer the webfora over email or nntp, but I do totally accept it, and I think it's very important to _also_ offer that type of access.
Where "access" is the important point: The data should be accessible through web, mail and NNTP, but the content itself should be the same. Gateways for NNTP and mailing lists would be awesome.
In principle I agree completely, but in my opinion the core engine has to be a news-server with bi-directionally gated fora and mailing-lists. Fora and email should be interfaces only, the news-server does the actual message management.
I don't like mailing lists, but it took me a while to find out why: In my mailbox I want person-to-person communication, and most of what I keep in my mailbox is "personal", not "published". It confuses me.
To start with with, use filters to sort out mail into personal and list folders. That's what I did 10 years ago until I set up my own news-server and fed all the list emails into that. (like a personal gmane). Anyway, we're going off-topic. /Per Jessen, Zürich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org