From: Dave M. <mc...@ne...> - 2011-05-15 00:13:21
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On 5/14/11 3:59 AM, admin wrote: >>> There is a SDCC forum at: http://develissimo.com/forum/ >>> We want it to make it the "official SDCC forum". >> >> You tried to do this with mspgcc... >> Now you are going after the SDCC community as well. > > This is not part of a "dark plan". I love open source and i love to > talk, share and work with open source. > I have done a lot of projects, and i do work 100% with open source. I > contribute to different projects and i really like it. > And i do like forums and RSS feeds. So do other people... Not everyone > is a fan of mailing-lists. Actually, most people are. Especially most clueful people. I've seen upwards of a dozen good and useful communities DIE because some weenie decided it was a good idea to turn them into a web forum. In practice, this is almost never a good idea, and over the years it has almost never been successful. In fact, I can't think of a single instance in which it has EVER been successful. > Sometimes i do receive up to 6000 mails per month from mailing > lists :-). I think this is too much, and i think it's a security > invulnerability to throw out ones email contact all over the net. (spam) Then spend more time *reading* those lists, because spam is not a security problem, it is an inconvenience and an annoyance. Hmm, much like web forums. Your solution is to either sort your inbound email more effectively, or unsubscribe from some lists until your volume is more manageable. Don't try to make YOUR email volume issues everyone else's problem by mucking about with a proven, established, and well-liked community format. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL |