[TYPO3] Mailing list or forum?
Tyler Kraft
tyler.kraft at netefficiency.co.uk
Mon Sep 15 14:47:21 CEST 2008
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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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