[Wine] Wine

[James Hawkins]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 20 March 2008, Paul Johnson wrote:
>  > On Thursday 20 March 2008 04:13:13 am Darragh Bailey wrote:
>  > > I've noticed that in certain cases the header "In-Reply-to" doesn't
>  > > get set by the mail2forum software. Why that happens though I
>  > > haven't spotted.
>  > >
>  > > I did notice that this message was posted twice, so perhaps
>  > > mail2forum is not working correctly if the user set's the subject
>  > > in the forum post when replying and instead creates a new topic
>  > > with that subject.
>  >
>  > With all the trouble this causes, I really have to wonder what the
>  > point of a forum is when just a mailing list with a more traditional
>  > archive a-la Debian's lists get the job done with fewer problems and
>  > less headaches for ALL involved instead of just the bottom 5%...
>
>  I can see why forums exist - n00bs like them, it's a familiar interface
>  in a browser and the fact that it's about a gazillion times slower and
>  harder to work than an archived mailing list is lost on them. Well,
>  that's just the way that is.
>
>  Mailing lists - we know 'em and love 'em. Nuff said.
>
>  The bit I don't get is interfacing the two. It's like interfacing a
>  brothel with a sex-education class - superficially similar but when you
>  look closer you see they actually have nothing in common...
>

If they weren't linked, all of us ML users would never get over to the
forum to help exactly the type of people that need our help.

-- 
James Hawkins