[Zope3-Users] Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 3.4.0 candidate 1 Released

[Martin Aspeli]

Kurt Zitze wrote:
> if you want to raise the userbase of zope, the first and most obvious
> thing to do is, get a forum running! mailing lists are bu******* and
> completly out of date. it is max cumbersome to login into your email
> account to do a post and so on, i think i dont need to enumerate all
> the disadvantages of a mailing list compared to a forum. i am even
> not aware of how to replay to a certain message with this mailing
> list. why make it difficult if it could be easy? just get a forum and
> you have done 50% of the things you could do to improve the
> development experience with zope.

http://news.gmane.org/search.php?match=zope
http://www.nabble.com/Zope-f6706.html

... and when you start participating actively in a project or two, 
you'll realise why a web based (only) forum is far, far sub-optimal to a 
properly archived mailing list with an NNTP and web gateway.

If you're having trouble replying to emails ... mmm....

Martin

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