Mike Hearn wrote:
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.
No, I mean that there are multiple archives of many mailing lists; if one goes offline, the others are there and usable. (And if you don't like the user interface of one, you have options.)
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 null hypothesis (that wine is just unpopular) still needs to be disproven :-) I'd rather fix that problem (by getting Wine working) before worrying about whether my Aunt Tillie can post Wine support questions! - Dan