Re: [Fife-public] about the usage of mailing list and forums

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Martin Vohland schrieb:
I personally like the mailing list as a way to distribute "very 
important infos", e. g. as a remainder for deadlines / special events. I 
also enjoy following discussions about topics I'd never have a look into 
if posted in a forum (e. g. minizip, micropather, gpl-violations etc..)

cheers,
thomas
> Jasoka wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Currently there is overlap between the usage of mailing list and
>> forums. Barra has done great job listing pros and cons of different
>> communication channels to the wiki
>> (http://wiki.fifengine.de/index.php?title=Communication). Based on
>> that information, I would propose to either drop the usage fo email
>> lists OR forums. My vote goes for dropping the email list due to a)
>> constant spam and b) delays in messages. What do others think about
>> this?
>>
>> -j
>>   
>>     
> I agree with jasoka that the current situation is not really satisfying. 
> The constant spam on the mailing list is not only annoying for 
> subscribers but also for the list admins. To prevent that the archive 
> gets cluttered with the spam messages I do need to manually delete each 
> one of them. The delays are another good point: my main concern is that 
> some developers might be totally unaware of ongoing discussions as they 
> haven't received the mail yet.
>
> Therefore I propose to use the forums for developer discussions. We 
> could either:
> a) Use the existing engine discussion board
> b) Create a new developer board
>
> Our forums software supports subscribing to whole boards so the 
> developers could subscribe to the development board. This way it would 
> almost work like a mailing list.
>
> It would be good to hear the opinions of the other mailing list subscribers.
>
> Greetings,
> Martin
>
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