Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums integration thought

[Mathias <Mat...@gm...>]

On Thursday 30 November 2006 06:20, Jon S. Berndt wrote:
>   Curt wrote:
>   I just realize I have said absolutely nothing. :-)
>
>   I think I'm going to let them run just a bit longer and then maybe we can
> an idea if enough people think they are useful and are using them.
>
> If the community is split into two different camps, communication is going
> to suffer, plain and simple. I can receive email wherever I am and reply or
> not.  I can set up filters and rules in my email program to sort the email
> posts. If the mails to the FlightGear-devel lists are archived in a forum,
> that's fine. If posts to a forum are likewise echoed to the -devel list,
> that's fine. In other words, if there are two ways to view a single
> communication venue, that's fine. But if there are two completely
> independent venues to discuss issues (say, the Users list), that would be
> very, very bad. It really defeats the purpose of having any kind of
> discussion group/list/forum at all.
Yep a mail gateway to such forums would do the trick.
To be honest, I do not see an advantage of inventing and driving such a 
gateway in favour of using a mailing list that is already set up.

   Greetings

          Mathias