Do you prefer mailing lists or web based forums?

[ted leslie]

i was just looking at  the Alan Cox vs. Linus Torvalds scrap on
http://lkml.org

and when i read this posting (below), it just got me thinking that
lkml does a good job having a list, and a web site to navigate,
thus making the best of both worlds.

on a side note, i kinda side with Linus, getting Linux to be GPLv3 seems too complicated a task ..

-tl


On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 23:47:50 -0500
Daniel Armstrong <dwarmstrong-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On 2/2/06, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 06:37:47PM -0500, teddy mills wrote
> >
> > > Do you prefer mailing lists or web based forums?
> >
> >   Mailing lists or usenet (NNTP).  Web-based forums suck massively.
> 
> Opinion here seems to heavily favour mailing lists over web-based forums.
> Why is that? The reason I ask is because I am setting up a Drupal-powered
> website and plan to offer a web-based forum. I know from my personal
> browsing habits that when I try out a new linux distro if the site offers
> a web-based forum it is usually the first place I bookmark - the Ubuntu
> Forum, for example, is a great searchable source of info that makes it
> very easy to post or browse around.
> 
> Contrast that with something like the debian.user mailing list that gets
> over 4000+ post a month on average. Talk about trying to take a sip of
> water from a firehouse! That volume of email actually dissuades me from
> subscribing.
> 
> I enjoy the TLUG mailing list, but I think beyond a handful of members
> that a web-based forum offers advantages - easily searchable and posts are
> indexed by search engines, and the user has more options to manage their
> participation in a site. But I would like to hear from other TLUGers what
> turns them off web-forums?
> 
> Why do *you* prefer mailing lists over web-based forums?
> 
> Daniel
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