[ros-translate] Antiquated conversation technique?

[Mark IJbema]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 10:18:25PM +0100, Christoph V?lker wrote:
> Antiquated conversation technique?
> Arent't mailing-list a antiquated conversation technique today? Isn't it 
> better to use a forum like phpbb?

Somehow people seem to be less serious on forums. When they write an
email it's better readable most of the time, it's in whole sentences and
paragraphs, while discussions on forums seem to stuck at the sentences
most of the times.

> I joined the translation-mailing-list today and then was reading all the 
> mail in the archive. This was quite a hard thing to do. Cause the 
> threads are not seperated good enought. There are poor possibilities for 
> formatting. You never see the thread complete. Sometimes the content of 
> the ancester is  quoted, sometimes not. Sometimes this is helpfull, 
> sometimes it disturbes! You always get every mail in mailing-lists. Even 
> of the threads you are not intrested in. You see, i hate mailing-lists!

Seems more you hate your email client. A decent client threads and
filters for you.

Regards,

Mark