Posted by "Pranav Negandhi (concept-I)" on 11/05/05 15:16

Funny. I _ditched_ forums in order to sign onto this list. It's way too
much of an effort for me to log in to a website every time. Lists work
with quiet efficiency (not efficacy, I suppose) in the background
without needing me to refresh the page every 5 minutes.

My $0.2.

Pranav
www.concept-i.co.in

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.
>

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