[ewg] [Fwd: a forum?]

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 14:46 -0400, David Dillow wrote: 
> 
> Maybe, but I think even that is a bad way to go. From my experience,
> users of forums are less likely to quote the context for their messages
> -- they're used to the message they are replying to being right above
> them on the web page. Gating the messages to the mailing list would just
> give us words in a vacuum.

Yeah.  Probably such a gating implementation would probably need to
quote the message that the forum posting is in reply to.

Note, that I am not proposing that a gatewayed forum would be good (I'd
just as soon see no forums implemented -- I have a real dislike for
them), but just that if enough pressure did mount to provide them,
having them gated to the list is better than stand-alone forums to
prevent fragmenting the community into two different groups
communicating amongst themselves.

b.

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