[talk-au] A modest proposal fo OSM mailing list reform

[John Smith]

On 21 May 2011 16:08, Sam Couter <sam at couter.id.au> wrote:
> John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 21 May 2011 13:52, Nick Hocking <nick.hocking at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Forums (IMO) are much superior to mailing lists for one simple reason....
>> > If the forum software is a threaded one then it is really easy to avoid
>> > reading any drivel from the trolls. You just ignore the whole thread if the
>> > troll starts it or just ignore any parts of an otherwise useful thread if it
>> > becomes troll infested.
>
>> While not a forum, you do realise you can do the same thing with a
>> newsgroup interface?
>
> Any decent mail client will offer the same feature.
>
> Forums suck hardcore. They all have different feature sets, differently
> disabled UIs, they encourage terrible posting styles, and worst of all I
> have to go to them (and register separately at each one, log in each
> time I visit, manage yet another user profile, remember a whole new set of
> user identities for those I interact with, etc) if I want to read the
> content.
>
> With mailing lists on the other hand, the content conveniently comes
> direct to me, I get to choose what software has the interface I like, and
> it is impossible for censors to delete stuff before I get to see it. All
> that, and I still have a delete button for stuff I don't want to see.

I was trying to avoid the discussion/flame war over mailing lists v
forums v whatever.

This is a very subjective thing, possibly due to when you started to
use the internet and your personality/preferences etc etc etc

If people want to use a forum like interface, gmane.org does that I believe.