Re: GNOME discussions

Hi,

threading by mailing lists is often partially broken, but when using a
decent MUA able to work around some issues, it's usually not a mess. An
archive is just an archive, something a forum doesn't provide at all.
Nothing is ever deleted from an archive, an archive doesn't change by
moderation or by users who unsubsribe or whatsoever.

A forum topic that isn't short easily becomes a mess, since it's either
sorted by date with improper quoting or it provides a thread tree and
some people reply within the correct tree or don't do it, resulting in
the need to scroll up and down, to change pages forth and back. This is
a real mess rendering forums useless for not necessarily all long
discussions, but at least for a lot of long technical discussions.

From this point of view a forum cannot hold a candle to a mailing list.

Regards,
Ralf