Re: Mailing lists? Really?

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:13:26 -0700, /Ds Jstc/:

> I want to search for solutions, complain about my favorite missing
> features, and reply to other people's problems when I've already
> solved them.

Search for solutions in the archives:

http://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

You may even use Google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=i+want+solutions+site%3Amail-archives.apache.org%2Fmod_mbox%2Fsubversion-users

> But I can't seem to do that without subscribing to the mailing list.
> And my inbox is entirely full enough, thank you.
>
> There are probably thousands of competent, helpful people like me who
> would love to participate, but won't subscribe to yet another list.
> You aren't hearing from them... because they're not subscribed.
> Please change over to a threaded forum, so I can participate without
> resorting to email.

Don't you have filters (to sort out mailing lists in different folders)
and threaded view in your email client? Wouldn't you need to subscribe
to yet another web-based forum if it wasn't a mailing list? The last
thing I would want is to crawl an ill designed web forum with the speed
of a snail. I personally prefer NNTP, but mailing-lists are just fine.

-- 
Stanimir