Re: [xwt-users] Now c 239923

> Well, unfortunately your personal taste - which on this matter is
> similar to many other members of the XWT project - does not necessarily
> reflect the 'not overly technical' world opinion, which will make up a
> large portion of future XWT users.  They tend to prefer forums; the
> Gentoo forums again being a case in point where most people subscribe
> the fora but only a minority to the mailing list or #gentoo.

Totally agree.  Unfortunately I really do worry about a fragmentation of 
support -- #xwt is nice because it's realtime and lists.xwt.org is nice 
because it's archived and in-depth.  Forums have neither and I know that I 
won't be spending any time there to provide help since they're such a 
time-waste.  Adam does the lists, I can't see him diving into forums 
anytime soon...  

I dunno -- forums are just the painted-whore version of mailing lists.  IME, 
anyone who tries to get any serious work done goes crazy trying to wade 
through the sea of emoticons, animated avatars, crap colour schemes and 
other goop that pollute the forum world.

> Also, assuming large XWT popularity at point X in the future, fora are
> again a better communication mechanism with the mass public.  Not many
> people will want to sift through more then double figures of mail from
> the mailing list in a day.  Really, how useful is a mailing list when it
> gets so busy that you just don't have time to read it?  You get to
> discriminate at a glance in fora by disregarding entire threads,
> something much harder to do with mail.

Pardon?  I can disregard threads FAR easier with lists than I can in any 
forum!  Do you not use a threading MUA?

> I'm not saying 'must' nor 'now', but just don't discount something
> because you don't like it. ;)

I know, I know.  I'm Taurus.  Stubbron and bull-headed and set in my ways.  
If there were a nice mailing list to forum gateway (and vice-versa) I 
wouldn't be NEARLY as opposed to them.  I've yet to find a good one though.

And yes, I do realize that just because I don't like something doesn't mean 
it's bad.  :-)

Andrew