On 03/10/2011 05:39 PM, Paul Libbrecht wrote:
Andreas,
I am aware that web-forums may scale better in some ways.
All the complaints I and others have formulated about moving to web-forum relate to the ease of use of email-based traffic:
- receive all the forum posts per email - respond to them by email
If it is possible to get at least these functions I think no-one will object of having the "main storage" be something different than a mailing-list and, indeed, it would allow us to use extra features of a web-forum to better manage (e.g. indicate interest or disinterest to a thread or a filter).
+1.
I have repeatedly attempted to set-up web-forums to this effect and I never managed to get this fully working. The refinement of the handling the mails and the errors of such a tool as mailman will be hard to beat.
Please contradict me! Please review the arguments and see if they can be answered.
paul
Le 10 mars 2011 à 07:24, Andreas Hahn a écrit :
Hi everyone,
as for your morning entertainment I'll tell a little shortstory.
Get yourself a coffee - relax - and a few mins to read and think about it.
Back in 2004 2 Java Developers that were upset about EJBs published a book with their thoughts and recommendations about how J2EE software developement should be done in their minds. The 2 guys were Rod Johnson and Juergen Hoeller, the book was "J2EE Development without EJB", and [....]
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