Mike Hearn wrote:
[Let's set up web forums for wine users]
I dislike the thought of having to monitor multiple forums. Worse still, if a particular web forum goes offline, all its content is lost; not so for mailing lists, which are archived in multiple locations and so are much more reliable and long-lived. Let's keep it all in wine-users, please.
If your goal is to make sure that the average person can get answers to his or her questions about Wine, that's a noble enterprise. I would prefer a solution that doesn't have the reliability and usability problems of the current crop of web forums. I would also prefer an evidence-based approach to demonstrating the problem(s) with the current situation. "Some people prefer web forums" is not sufficient evidence.
As I've said before, Mike is brilliant but misguided :-) - Dan
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