[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Forum

[Nick Bowler]

On 13:28 Mon 26 Jul     , Kevin Jardine wrote:
> On Jul 26, 10:10 pm, Evan Laforge <qdun... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Interesting, I've never figured out why some people prefer forums, but
> > you're proof that they exist :)  
> 
> This debate is eerily similar to several others I've seen (for
> example, on the interactive fiction mailing list).
> 
> In every case I've seen, a web forum vs. mailing list debate has been
> pointless at best and sometimes turned into a flame war. I think that
> it's best for people who prefer a web forum to establish one and use
> it, and for those who prefer the mailing list approach to continue to
> use that.

It seems to me, then, that a wine-like web forum <-> mailing list
gateway would satisfy everyone without fragmenting the community?

See http://forum.winehq.org/viewforum.php?f=2.

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Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)