Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Migrating from Mail Listing to Forum

On 01/29/2011 08:15 PM, Miguel Boto wrote:

My experience so far suggests that people who find mailing lists to be 
complicated suffer from using ill suited email clients. For whatever 
that is worth.


> I don´t know the reason why most open source software use mailing
> lists to keep up the development (i´m sure there´s a good one), but
> for graphic related subjects, where we need to see and work with
> images this seems a somewhat week solution. Maybe it´s well suited
> for programmers but it´s definitely not for designers.

It's mainly about having everything in one place, messages coming to 
you, instead of having to visit a bunch of sites, bother with lots of 
accounts.

The fact that forums tend to have email notification features should 
tell you something about the maturity and completeness of that approach ;)


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