[TYPO3] Mailing list or forum?

[Susanne Moog]

Hi,

H. Hahn schrieb:
> Whether or not off-topic:
> When I started to use these lists (Dutch, German and English) some twon 
> months ago or so, I, too, made the error of using the reply button to 
> write a new message. After all, this is a good method in normal 
> e-mailing is you already got another e-mail from the destinee.

I personally prefer only using the reply button when I really want to 
reply to something the recipient wrote, when I want to have a new e-mail 
to him I use the new mail button --> because I use the thread feature of 
my mail client not only for mailing lists but for all mails as it sorts 
them nicely.

> Apart from this, several recent discussions in this English list (and 
> not only there) indicate that I am not the only one who made this error, 
> and that there are other confusing things about this mailing system.
> 
> I am absolutely convinced that real forum systems (like e.g. 
> Mozillaforum, and others) are much more self-explaning.
> You don't get an avalanche of messages in your e-mail reader that are 
> not interesting for the moment. And when they become interesting at a 
> later stage, they are pretty simple to find.

I personally dislike forums a lot. I have to open my webbrowser to go 
there and I can't change them to display like I want to.
For the second part of the statement: You do know what the difference 
between a mailing list and a newsgroup is and that you can use the 
newsgroup like a forum (not getting all messages but just those of the 
threads that interest you separated from your normal mails)?

> 
> After all, news groups are popular within inly a limited group of 
> internet users. Many serious web developers do not use news groups and 
> consequently have no experience with them. Forums are much more 
> convenient to use. Even the Typo3 bug tracker (Mantis) is more 
> self-explaining than these prehiostoric news mailing lists.

Here again I have the impression that you entirely mix newsgroups and 
mailing lists which are different things. And - sorry - but your first 
sentence in this part is true for forums, too.

> 
> So I, and many other people as well, would greatly applaud a change from 
> these mailing lists to a real forum system.

I won't and I guess that's what this is all about at last: personal 
preferences. And as to forums there is at least one good german TYPO3 
forum I know on typo3.net and a lot more I have heard of, perhaps these 
are sufficient for you?

Regards,

Susanne