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Posted by Miles Thompson on 11/05/05 05:45
You missed the most important: This list works, why break it?
(Apart from a personal dislike of most forum formats - they're no
improvement. I can ding down a list of emails a lot more quickly than
clicking in and out of forum topics.)
MT
At 11:09 PM 11/4/2005, GamblerZG wrote:
>AFAIK, there are no "official" forums for PHP. Considering the fact that
>PHP is a web development tool, such distaste for message boards is ironic
>at the least. So why exactly there aren't any forums on php.net?
>
>I've monitored this list long enough to predict the most probable replies
>to this message. To save everybody some time, I will ansver them here,
>without waiting someone to key them in.
>
>Reply: There are forums on zend.com.
>My Reply: zend.com != php.com.
>
>R: There is a web interface for this mailing list.
>MR: You cant' post new messages there, and it's just another way of
>showing emails anyway.
>
>R: There is a newsgroup interface.
>MR: Yeah, I'm using it right now. But it requires special software, and is
>terribly slow, unless you have very good connection and moderately powerful PC.
>
>R: Forums suck, mailing lists rule.
>MR: Not if you don't like receiving 200 messages + spam every day.
>
>R: Synchronizing mail lists and forums is very difficult and nobody will
>do it.
>MR: There is no need to synchronize anything.
>
>--
>Best regards,
>Roman S.I.
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