[gobolinux-users] Gobolinux Forum?

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Sat, 26 May 2007 09:03:33 +0200, molfar <molfar.ua at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/26/07, Suraj Kurapati <sunaku at gmail.com> wrote:
>> IMHO, it seems to me that Gmail's poorly designed web interface is
>> the problem here, not mailing lists vs. forums.
> It is true to some extent but not entirely. Gmail's web interface is
> brilliant, however it was not intended to to follow mail-list
> discussions by design.

No, it's not; neither brilliant nor intenteded to follow mail-lists.
Personally I hope people stop using gmail (or just learn how to use
e-mail properly) because it teaches people bad habbits, like creating
a reply a message by creating a new message, which breaks threading
in all clients except gmail's "smart" threading. Gmail also teaches
top-posting, as people will see the messages replied to above the
reply, which is only true for gmail.

> That's why having a thread combined in it look
> more like a hack than a feature. Anyway - for mail-based discussions
> Google Groups was launched.

I don't see how this is better then the gmail interface. The discussions
are still flat and replies are unstructured.

> And I sometimes wonder, why won't the
> developers move their posting activity there? It is much more advanced
> than Gmane etc. You don't need special hosting for it. It can be used
> from web interface as well (for those of us who prefer forum-like
> communication).

And so can gmane. I haven't used google groups, only read them and I
can't find in what way it's more advanced than gmane. Can you enlighten
me?

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/Jonas

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