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

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Paul Johnson  	PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:57 am

> 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. 


To you forums might be pain in ass but not to others.   Newbies stomp on threads anyhow.   Reply without quoting is also a newbie mistake on a mailing lists.  Just the stuffup forum2mail gateway made it worse.

Now a error in the forum engine that is a valid reason to split the mailing list temp.  winehq-forum.   Note words.   If its just due to numbers of newbie is just get over it.   They would have been there sooner or latter.

I guess some of my posts have been with out title too making problem worse.   Thinking answering without title is a normal forum thing but not a mailing list.  If so that is a another back end engine problem.