[Springframework-developer] Re: Consolidation of sf forums and user mailing list

[roger h. <apo...@sn...>]

"Rainer Schmitz" <Rai...@ab...> wrote in message
news:40E...@ab......
> +1 for consolidation.
>
> Personally I prefer mailing lists:
> - All information (also from other projects) in one tool with the same
> handling - no need to check different forums and to remember different
> ways to post messages.
> - Messages I've seen are marked automatically, new messages are
> automatically identified.
> - The mail author is easily identified
> -- no "Sender: SourceForge.net" or meaningless sourceforge alias
> -- the senders address is available for private communication
> - I can mark, sort, archive... messages of (personal) interest
>
> Regarding people not knowing about the searchable archives at gmane:
> just include a link at the location where the mailing lists are
> announced and maybe in the message footer generated by the mailing list
> server and (most) people will know.

I'll second all of the above - & the gmane nntp feeds make keeping track of
assorted project mailing lists so convenient !

Roger