[TYPO3] Mailing list or forum?

[Georg Ringer]

Hi,
> After all, news groups are popular within inly a limited group of 
> internet users. 

That is just not true! I just wanna remind of alt.binaries.* ;)

Big advantages are:
- fast
- no ads
- no overhead!

Of course there is adblock but still.. I got 100mbit speed and reading 
newsgroups with my own client is the best thing to do! No forum can be 
faster than this. Another big advantage: I got everything offline 
available! So i can sit in the train with no internet connection and can 
search in all mailinglists!

> Many serious web developers do not use news groups and 
> consequently have no experience with them. 

Just because you don't use it....

> Forums are much more 
> convenient to use. 

Not true! Every forum is still a bit different. Here I can use my own 
client which I know the best. Every click into a categorie needs a new 
reload of the page meaning waiting...

> Even the Typo3 bug tracker (Mantis) is more 
> self-explaining than these prehiostoric news mailing lists.

You can't compare products which are so different!


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

What is the advantage you got with a real forum?

Georg