Re: English PEAR Forum

Mike Carter wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: Justin Patrin [mailto:papercrane@reversefold.com] Daniel Kopp wrote:

Hi! I would still very much prefer a real newsgroup. (maybe it

would be a very

good idea already to make the existing newsgroup open to posts) All programming languages use Newsgroups and it is much

more flexible and -

I know that I am the only one who is really interested in

that now - it is

possible to use offline and by that much cheaper ... (Yes -

there are some

weird people in this world that still do not have a flatrate) Regards Daniel

I don't know what you mean about posting not working. This message is a post to the newsgroup. ;-)

The problem with Newsgroups is the spam, and email harvesting that goes on. And then there was the virus outbreak on pear-general recently too. Something a web-based forum is immune to at least. - Mike C. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

Spam and harvesting normally happens on the main newsgroup servers. The PHP/PEAR newsgroups aren't part of that. As for viruses...they'll be around as long as we use the e-mail list and I can tell you right now that the they're going to be staying. IMHO, a forum is much too inefficient for such a large list. I'd much rather use the newsgroup. -- paperCrane <Justin Patrin>