On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:49:15 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
I dislike the thought of having to monitor multiple forums.
Well, it's not like non-forumers would be banned or anything :)
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.
If you mean archived in peoples inboxes, then I'd argue that this is really not an archive at all. I don't remember ever seeing a mailing list archive that got lost being restored from inboxes.
If you mean backups in general, nothing stops people backing up the databases.
"Some people prefer web forums" is not sufficient evidence.
It's hard to prove a negative like that. Obviously _some_ people post to wine-users, but judging from other projects I'd expect there to be a lot of others who don't, simply because they're not comfortable with mailing lists as an interface.
The amount of traffic experienced by sites like ubuntuforums.org vs their -user lists is a fairly compelling piece of evidence, I'd say.
thanks -mike