real mail for mailgeeks, leave forums for the masses!
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 12:25 pm
Hi all.
Was talking in jabber with sussi and he proposed me to say this here.
I think one way to improve communication is by leave the forum thing.
Or maybe by providing both worlds to users.
I rarely check my bzmail since i'm not a webrowser compulsive user. I think the net has various services and some are more appropriate for some task than others.
Having to check a web page for mail is a pain. And when ammounts of mail becomes huge, a forum is the worst invention to handle it.
I'm suscribed to many mailing lists, some of them with huge activity, like gentoo-users and comp.lang.python. I'm talking of hundreds mails a day.
However i don't read all this mail, but i can manage to do an efective processing of what i want to read on those and the other 20 lists i'm suscribed.
And i still can work and live!
Web pages are not meant to do the job of a mail client. Sure, you can do many things with a scripting language like php or whatever, but those things are already solved in mail clients and servers.
So why reinvent the wheel?
I think the league should drop the forums and move to a mailing list system. Maybe, like i said before, allow participation by web pages also, but not exclusively.
Surely i can tell i will be a more active user if i can notice the bzworld trend in my inbox.
Communication is an important part of bzworld, like playing.
Was talking in jabber with sussi and he proposed me to say this here.
I think one way to improve communication is by leave the forum thing.
Or maybe by providing both worlds to users.
I rarely check my bzmail since i'm not a webrowser compulsive user. I think the net has various services and some are more appropriate for some task than others.
Having to check a web page for mail is a pain. And when ammounts of mail becomes huge, a forum is the worst invention to handle it.
I'm suscribed to many mailing lists, some of them with huge activity, like gentoo-users and comp.lang.python. I'm talking of hundreds mails a day.
However i don't read all this mail, but i can manage to do an efective processing of what i want to read on those and the other 20 lists i'm suscribed.
And i still can work and live!
Web pages are not meant to do the job of a mail client. Sure, you can do many things with a scripting language like php or whatever, but those things are already solved in mail clients and servers.
So why reinvent the wheel?
I think the league should drop the forums and move to a mailing list system. Maybe, like i said before, allow participation by web pages also, but not exclusively.
Surely i can tell i will be a more active user if i can notice the bzworld trend in my inbox.
Communication is an important part of bzworld, like playing.