[Python-ideas] User forums

Chris Rebert clp at rebertia.com
Fri Oct 17 20:20:41 CEST 2008


On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Victor Martin Ulloa
<pelotoescogorciao at yahoo.es> wrote:
> Why are we using a 90's mailing list? Why not a modern phpBB web forum?

Because GNU Mailman is written in Python where as phpBB is written
in...that other language :P

More seriously, mailinglists/newsgroups let everyone follow all the
conversations that are going on, whereas in forums there's no way
(that I've ever heard of) to "subscribe" to all the topics
automatically. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Cheers,
Chris
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