[Gambas-user] mailing lists to forum topics

Gareth Bult gareth at ...1689...
Tue Sep 4 03:58:00 CEST 2007


Mmm,

Depends on how you look at it, I can't manage without an RSS feed, hence my investment of 1 day in writing a mailing list -> RSS interface.

Why not just subscribe to the forums you're interested in (i.e. not gambas-users or gambas-developers, as you get this via the mailing lists) and you'll get the posts via email ... ??

..

I see Gambas doing one of three things;

a. Die - in which case all this is pointless
b. Stay the same - in which case, all of this is pointless
c. Expand - in which case mailing list traffic will eventually overwhelm the list.

I would like to see (c) come to pass, in which case you will need an alternative, forums for example.

If you don't want to monitor the Forums, that's not a problem. 
If I see something I can't handle I'll stick it on the bug tracker, or worst case - the mailing list (!)

Gareth.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob" <sourceforge-raindog2 at ...94...>
To: gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2007 2:31:46 AM (GMT) Europe/London
Subject: [Gambas-user] mailing lists to forum topics

Hi, Gareth.  I realize you want to make your forum appear vital so 
that it'll draw new users in.  So far, though, by copying all the 
mailing lists posts to new forum topics, all you've done is make sure 
that those of us already on the mailing list who were keeping track 
of the forum via RSS will no longer do so.

I think that there's a reason none of the 3 or 4 prior Gambas forums 
has ever gotten critical mass, though linuxbasic.net still gets fairly 
regular traffic.  But creating this sort of gateway will only serve 
to alienate those of us who might have helped the kind of new users 
who are unwilling to use a mailing list for whatever reason.  Let 
them remain separate and the forum will live or die on its own merit.

Rob

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