Re: A PEAR Forum?

Matthew, I don't mean to be outa place here. But don't ya think that was a bit harsh? Someone proposed an idea, your input was requested, but your sacrasm and rudeness more then likely was not. Chill dude, its just idea generating time. Matthew Palmer wrote:

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.