Stephen Cook wrote:
> On 11/16/2010 10:51 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > What I'm more interested in is still a word from the people who would
> > actually *use* a forum on how this would be better than sites like
> > Nabble and Gmane.
>
> I'm one of those. I'm subscribed to these mailing lists simply because
> it is the only way I know of to get the messages in a timely fashion,
> but I would greatly prefer a forum-style interface.
>
> I had never heard of Nabble or Gmane until now, but I just checked them
> out and from my quick look it *looks* like a web interface for people
> who prefer mailing lists.
>
> I like having a category breakdown (at the moment I have my email client
> splitting the various lists into folders), and I like having little
> icons telling me which ones I already read and which are new (my email
> client has that also of course).
OK, here is why our Nabble/Gmane web sites are inferior to forums for
some people ---- Nabble/Gmane have no per-user state indicating what has
been read, what threads you are interested in getting email
notification about, etc.
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