Re: A PEAR Forum?

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Mike Carter wrote: > Any chance of getting a PEAR Forum up and running on the PEAR website rather > than limiting users just to the mailing lists? Yeah, forums are great. You get: * Unthreaded discussions * Graphical smileys (boy have they made my life easier) * A choice of 1 (count 'em! one!) user interfaces, instead of having to choose which MUA suits your usage the best * People linking to random graphics on the web to put with their sig * Wasted bandwidth aplenty as all of the page trimming comes down with every single message * The need to go to a webpage to read the latest postings, which means you have to be connected to the net to read and reply. Gee, I'm so thankful that PEAR is getting a forum. E-mail is so terrible: * I can read and reply to it at my leisure, online or offline * I have to make a decision as to which program suits my needs * I can reasonably assume that the source address of the posting might actually be valid. And a host of other terrible things. If people are dead-set on having some web-based monstrosity to do group discussion, write some front-end for the ML archives. Even add the ability to post. But keep the ML M based, FFS. > ...I just realised I've missed loads of PEAR posts because the corporate > email server has blocked the PEAR and SOAP mailing list addresses due to it > thinking it was spam! :-) If your employment relates to PEAR in some way, then some IT boffin deserves an application of the wirebrush of enlightenment on the scrotum of stupidity. > Still, an offical forum would be nice - easier to search than the archive > too, a little. How? You type keywords, and matching pages appear. It doesn't matter whether the material was generated in a forum or a ML post. > Smarty recently added a forum which is nice of them - how about the PEAR > group following? Ironic names are always the best. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16