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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:47:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Benson <gudnabrsam@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Plea for a forum
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--- Xavier Hanin <xavier.hanin@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:03 AM,
> <paul.newport@targetgroup.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "For what it's worth, I'm pretty much in favour of
> mailing lists, and
> > in my ever so humble opinion I'm not a dinosaur,
> I'm quite the
> > hipster. For me the main argument is as stated -
> being able to track
> > lots of lists simultaneously. GMail does this
> excellently - I have a
> > special account which I only use for mailing
> lists, all mail gets
> > tagged when it comes in and optionally archived
> immediately"
> >
> > This may well be, but completely useless for those
> of us who do not have
> > access to web mail from work. THis is why we need
> a forum.
> >
> > Last comment on the thread, up to the IVY guys now
> to decide.
> 
> Not really, Ivy being a project of the ASF, we have
> to follow the ASF rules.
> And the ASF is clear on the subject [1]:
> "Communication is done via mailing
> lists."
> 

Thank you, Xavier.  I was just about to post a link to
http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html,
but your link is actually a little clearer.

> That being said, I also like the mailing lists for
> reasons listed by others.
> IMO tools like google group offer the best of both
> worlds. But maybe the
> best would simply be mail 2.0 [2] [3]
> 

One would really think that between Nabble and
Markmail all the other arguments against mailing lists
are moot.  Markmail is really nice.

-Matt

> Xavier
> 
> [1]
>
http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#communication
> [2]
>
http://www.jroller.com/robertburrelldonkin/entry/mail2_0_smtp_vs_blogging
> [3] http://code.google.com/p/rmep/
> 
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