• Jason House <jason.james.house gmail.com> Nov 19 2007
• "Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> Nov 19 2007
• Jason House <jason.james.house gmail.com> Nov 19 2007
• "Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> Nov 19 2007
• Lars Ivar Igesund <larsivar igesund.net> Nov 20 2007
• "Chris Miller" <chris dprogramming.com> Nov 20 2007

Jason House <jason.james.house gmail.com> writes:

Alexander Panek Wrote:

 I'm not sure whether I proposed this before, but I do see a necessity
 for this. Even though there are forums and the ticketing system on
 dsource, the main discussions are going on on IRC, which is a fairly
 frail medium of communication. 



I've been thinking for some time that a tango-specific mailing list would be
nice.  Not because I want to censor tango discussion, but because it's big
enough to generate a significant amount of traffic.

It also helps users feel ok about posting to a mailing list instead of using
dsource's forums (which I don't like).

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> writes:

"Jason House" <jason.james.house gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:fhsci5$2dg7$1 digitalmars.com...
 Alexander Panek Wrote:

 I'm not sure whether I proposed this before, but I do see a necessity
 for this. Even though there are forums and the ticketing system on
 dsource, the main discussions are going on on IRC, which is a fairly
 frail medium of communication.



 I've been thinking for some time that a tango-specific mailing list would 
 be nice.  Not because I want to censor tango discussion, but because it's 
 big enough to generate a significant amount of traffic.

 It also helps users feel ok about posting to a mailing list instead of 
 using dsource's forums (which I don't like).


Isn't that weird!  Maybe it's a generation gap thing.  Having been on 
phpBB-style web forums since I started programming, I've always felt far 
more comfortable on them than on mailing lists or newsgroups.  There's 
something far more impersonal and hostile-feeling about the latter that I 
just can't get over.  The archiving aspect of newsgroups is also fairly 
minor to me; most, if not all, web forums have much better searches than 
most newsreaders provide, and most also have plaintext or minimal-HTML 
archiving functionality built in. 

Jason House <jason.james.house gmail.com> writes:

Jarrett Billingsley wrote: 
 Isn't that weird!  Maybe it's a generation gap thing.  Having been on
 phpBB-style web forums since I started programming, I've always felt far
 more comfortable on them than on mailing lists or newsgroups.  There's
 something far more impersonal and hostile-feeling about the latter that I
 just can't get over.  The archiving aspect of newsgroups is also fairly
 minor to me; most, if not all, web forums have much better searches than
 most newsreaders provide, and most also have plaintext or minimal-HTML
 archiving functionality built in.


Don't make me feel old ;)

I like how newsgroups readers give me a choice of interface.  Forums seem
like ad-hoc creations that only give the options the creator decided on. 
I've never seen a way to monitor multiple forums (on different sites) in a
unified way.  Recent forum irks would include a lack of any notification
when someon responds to a topic I created in a tango forum.

Maybe I'll get lucky and someone will respond with all the ways to remove my
issues :)

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> writes:

"Jason House" <jason.james.house gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:fhtk1n$17s8$1 digitalmars.com...
 Don't make me feel old ;)

 I like how newsgroups readers give me a choice of interface.  Forums seem
 like ad-hoc creations that only give the options the creator decided on.
 I've never seen a way to monitor multiple forums (on different sites) in a
 unified way.  Recent forum irks would include a lack of any notification
 when someon responds to a topic I created in a tango forum.

 Maybe I'll get lucky and someone will respond with all the ways to remove 
 my
 issues :)


A lot of newer web forums have RSS feed support.  That's pretty nice.

As for the DSource phpBB forums, they seem to have most of the options 
turned off, but you can still have it send an email when you get replies. 
As for the Tango forums, I'm not sure but I _believe_ that they will notify 
you of replies through your Trac login info; but if it doesn't, they're 
developed by one of the Tango developers and you can probably request that. 

Lars Ivar Igesund <larsivar igesund.net> writes:

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:

 "Jason House" <jason.james.house gmail.com> wrote in message
 news:fhtk1n$17s8$1 digitalmars.com...
 Don't make me feel old ;)

 I like how newsgroups readers give me a choice of interface.  Forums seem
 like ad-hoc creations that only give the options the creator decided on.
 I've never seen a way to monitor multiple forums (on different sites) in
 a
 unified way.  Recent forum irks would include a lack of any notification
 when someon responds to a topic I created in a tango forum.

 Maybe I'll get lucky and someone will respond with all the ways to remove
 my
 issues :)


 A lot of newer web forums have RSS feed support.  That's pretty nice.
 
 As for the DSource phpBB forums, they seem to have most of the options
 turned off, but you can still have it send an email when you get replies.
 As for the Tango forums, I'm not sure but I _believe_ that they will
 notify you of replies through your Trac login info; but if it doesn't,
 they're developed by one of the Tango developers and you can probably
 request that.


It is planned (and possibly implemented), but not yet in production on the
server.

-- 
Lars Ivar Igesund
blog at http://larsivi.net
DSource, #d.tango & #D: larsivi
Dancing the Tango

"Chris Miller" <chris dprogramming.com> writes:

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:24:44 -0500, Jason House  
<jason.james.house gmail.com> wrote:

 Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
 Isn't that weird!  Maybe it's a generation gap thing.  Having been on
 phpBB-style web forums since I started programming, I've always felt far
 more comfortable on them than on mailing lists or newsgroups.  There's
 something far more impersonal and hostile-feeling about the latter that  
 I
 just can't get over.  The archiving aspect of newsgroups is also fairly
 minor to me; most, if not all, web forums have much better searches than
 most newsreaders provide, and most also have plaintext or minimal-HTML
 archiving functionality built in.


 Don't make me feel old ;)

 I like how newsgroups readers give me a choice of interface.  Forums seem
 like ad-hoc creations that only give the options the creator decided on.
 I've never seen a way to monitor multiple forums (on different sites) in  
 a
 unified way.  Recent forum irks would include a lack of any notification
 when someon responds to a topic I created in a tango forum.

 Maybe I'll get lucky and someone will respond with all the ways to  
 remove my
 issues :)


I made a RSS feed to notify me of dsource activity:  
http://www.dprogramming.com/dnews/dsource/
It's not that great but it works for me.