Proposal: digitalmars.D.tango newsgroup

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Jason House" <jason.james.house at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:fhsci5$2dg7$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Alexander Panek Wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure whether I proposed this before, but I do see a necessity
>> for this. Even though there are forums and the ticketing system on
>> dsource, the main discussions are going on on IRC, which is a fairly
>> frail medium of communication.
>
>
> I've been thinking for some time that a tango-specific mailing list would 
> be nice.  Not because I want to censor tango discussion, but because it's 
> big enough to generate a significant amount of traffic.
>
> It also helps users feel ok about posting to a mailing list instead of 
> using dsource's forums (which I don't like).

Isn't that weird!  Maybe it's a generation gap thing.  Having been on 
phpBB-style web forums since I started programming, I've always felt far 
more comfortable on them than on mailing lists or newsgroups.  There's 
something far more impersonal and hostile-feeling about the latter that I 
just can't get over.  The archiving aspect of newsgroups is also fairly 
minor to me; most, if not all, web forums have much better searches than 
most newsreaders provide, and most also have plaintext or minimal-HTML 
archiving functionality built in.