[ARMedslack] Thinking of decomissioning this mailing list in favour of a sub forum on LinuxQuestions.org

[Stuart Winter]

The LQ forum has the tick box option at the bottom (which is on by
default, IIRC) so that you receive email responses when the thread is
updated.

The mailing list is searchable by google, yes and some list aggregators
also have subscribed to the list, so you can view the list within a UI.

The other good point of the forum is that the user can join (if they are a
Slackware user, the chances are that they'll already have an account) and
reply to a thread that was previously created, where as with the mailing
list this isn't the case unless they go to a lot of effort to import
an mbox into their MUA of choice.
I've almost convinced myself about this, apart from I am now reminded of
how annoing it is to trim forum posts and include textual/code/console
output within forum tags. hmm.

On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Gregg Levine wrote:

> Hello!
> I don't like them either. So far each of my three devices, the
> Raspberry Pi, two Netduinos, and several Arduinos all use them. And
> unless the message contains tags that are set appropriately, the
> boards do not remind me when I have a response waiting.
>
> Isn't this list searchable via Google? That is the search engine is
> aware of the archival site for the list?
> -----
> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Stuart Winter <m-lists at biscuit.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > As the subject says - I am thinking of asking for a sub forum on LQ and
> > using that for ARM related stuff.  LQ is the official Slackware questions
> > forum for x86, so it makes sense from that perspective.  In addition it
> > also raises the profile of the ARM port - since the communication won't be
> > squirreled away in an archive mbox.
> >
> > I am personally not a fan of web forums as I don't like having to click
> > everywhere - it's easier to use PINE and the keyboard controls; however
> > the two points above really should outweigh my personal preferences ;-)
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > --
> > Stuart Winter
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Stuart Winter
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