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

[Jens Vagelpohl]

On Mar 27, 2008, at 18:26 , 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 bu******* and completly out of date.

If you want to be taken seriously ranting doesn't help.

My own impression in the never-ending mailing list versus web forum  
battle battle, at least when it comes to Open Source software, has  
been that mailing lists are more common, and if there are web forums  
they do tend to be "newbie ghettos" as Andreas mentioned.

 From your argument about cumbersone logins to mail accounts it  
appears you dislike mailing lists because you use some free web-based  
email provider. Well, get a real email account and use it with a real  
email client, and all that will be gone.

Me personally, I like the "messages come to me"-nature of a list as  
opposed to the "I have to click my way through some web interface"- 
tedium on websites.

jens