[vdr] Re: user mailing list

[Gavin Hamill <gdh@acentral.co.uk>]

On Friday 24 September 2004 14:46, Juri Haberland wrote:
>
> A wiki is IMO not good for discussions (but for documentation) and
> forums are a PITA.

Hear, hear. Forums are clumsy and at the discretion of the single machine and 
net connection running the whole system. A traditional mailing list allows 
the whole arena to be searched by any number of external agents, and indeed 
for multiple sites to contain an archive of the list.

It's also (IMO) much more convenient for users to keep a selection of 
'favourite posts' in a local mail folder than a series of HTTP bookmarks :)

Cheers,
Gavin.