[Wine] RFD: create new list and forum 'wine-newbies'

[Paul Johnson]

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On Monday 24 March 2008 03:53:49 am oiaohm wrote:

> Its just a progression.    Even if you unlink the forum/mailing list all
> you are doing is buying time.   Sooner or latter mailing lists will become
> popular again.

That's a good thing, though.  At least mailing lists are usable even if the 
content often isn't.  Forums are just slow and a pain in the ass to use 
compared to email.  About the only way you can make a forum worse or a 
mailing list less functional is to attach it to a broken forum2mail gateway 
that stomps threads and allows people to reply without quoting.

> All it would really take is a few beginner books published 
> showing number one how to use mailing lists number two saying that they are
> the best way to get answers.  Even worse is if email clients start making
> using mail lists very point and click.

How is that a bad thing?  Modern mail clients like mutt or kmail make things 
like adding [Wine] to the subject and setting reply-to back to the mailing 
list entirely unnessessary.  This is a good thing:  Machines should not be 
touching or setting explicitly user-set headers like Subject and Reply-To in 
the first place.

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Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
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