Re: Would DF welcome a phpbb forum?

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Indeed, it would be like users@, but consider:
>
> 1) In what way can you order threads in a mailing list? If we had a
> web-based forum we could easilly have stuff related to hardware in one
> forum, multimedia in another, pkgsrc in another etc., we could even have a
> forum for non df-related stuff.

As others have pointed out, if you don't like mail, there's still the 
NNTP server (which I use, too). It has threads, doesn't require you to 
login or register (yet another username/password combination I'd have to 
remember) and you have all messages back to the very first one. NNTP was 
exactly made for the purpose you describe, even though it gets 20 years 
old this year.


> 2) Assume that DF is going to gain much bigger popularity, im not talking
> about hundreds of users like now, im talking about thousands. Can you
> imagine users@ with 10x (or even more) people posting one over another all
> different stuff? Thats confusion! You arent going to attract people to DF
> with a mailing list like that.

Well, I think we shouldn't bother about this now. The mailing 
lists/newsgroups have so far been good enough for the amount of traffic 
DragonFly generates at present time. If that ever becomes a problem, I'm 
sure a good solution will be found then.

Sascha

P.S. Your willingness to help out is appreciated, nevertheless. :) It's 
just that in this case, personally, I wouldn't feel being helped.