On 01/23/2014 11:15 AM, PB wrote:
Has moving discussion to a online-forum rather than a mailing list ever been considered? This would sort the top posting issue, make quoting easier, make FAQs more visible (stickys), section the messages better (no need to put library name in subject). It would also clean up my inbox from Boost-related emails.
I love that discussion, it comes up on every mailinglist now and then. The usual answer is, that heavy users don't want to change the push notification from several mailinglists to a pull notification in several webforums. I don't see how a webforum would solve a top posting issue, since one can usually freely place the quote in the message posted. Sectioning could be achieved by special mailinglists for special libraries, but it would be an extra amount of work to subscribe to all. All the filtering can already be done using a proper mailclient (which Outlook was not when I last used it, don't know about current versions). But you're right, I don't see how sticky messages could be solved using MLs, except as a link at the registration webform. Usually the final compromise is to refer to Gmane: http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel, which can be used to post from the web or via NNTP. That's essentially a short summary of the 3 discussions on the same topic I read in the last 6 months on other mailinglists. It might be a different result on this list, but frankly I doubt that. Norbert