[SLUG] Mailing Lists!

[Adams, Jamie]

> Guess we could always have a forum, 

Nooooooooo!. Lol

> but as a regular user of 
> those people top post, some delete the entire message, some 
> quote the appropriate parts...the only thing you win is that 
> you're forced to view it in a threaded way, but as people 
> have said you can do it in your mail client too. Well, most 
> of them anyway.  And if we have a forum as well as a mailing 
> list it's like splitting the community up and that's surely a 
> Bad Thing.
> 
> I know big open source projects that use a mailing list as 
> their central hub for passing around patches and discussing 
> stuff.  I'm on the Parrot development one and people there 
> generally don't top post and so on, and it works just fine.  
> I guess it's all about educating the community to use them properly.
> 
Exactly. I will gladly try and follow any guidelines Al sets. I think im
as guilty as anyone for top posting etc.

> Jonathan
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