[Talk-de] Mailling-List kontra Forum

[Colin Marquardt]

Thomas Krüger
<openstreetmap.org at nospam.nowire.org>
writes:

> Effektiv gibt es nur eine Funktion einer Maillingliste, die ein
> Forum nicht ersetzen kann, und das ist das
> Offline-Lesen. Andersherum entspricht eine Maillingliste nicht
> mehr dem heutigen technischen Stand (Stichworte: Usebility,
> semantic web, 3 clicks to information, on-demand information...).

Usability? Eines Tages muss ich wohl doch das hier mal uebersetzen.

http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/musicbrainz-users/2006-January/010818.html

| Ugh, ugh, ugh, for the love of god no. There is no possible way I would
| ever put up with having to use a web "message board" to access these
| discussions. I like my email software very much thank you. I am not
| going to wait for a web page to load every time I want to open a thread.
| I am not going to compose lengthy messages outside of my favorite
| editor. I am not going to read the content I want in some hack web
| designer's idea of what a page ought to look like with itty bitty fonts
| and tacky graphics and unwrapped lines of text. I am not going to check
| something three times a day instead of using my favorite biff program. I
| am not going to let someone else decide when messages should be marked
| read or expired. I am not going to come back from a week's vacation and
| give up on reviewing old threads because of how mind-numbing it is just
| to figure out where things left off. I will not sacrifice per-message
| permalinks and Googleable archives for some hack coder's idea of an
| adequate replacement. And above all I will not give up the ability to
| read and reply offline.
[Decklin Foster]

Cheers
  Colin