[TYPO3] Mailing list or forum?

Tyler Kraft tyler.kraft at netefficiency.co.uk
Mon Sep 15 14:47:21 CEST 2008


+1

Susanne Moog wrote:
> 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


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