Welcome toasters

[atoyf]

Great!

Now we have our very own forum  

Thank you Matt  

[hertie]

Yay!

[twa]

So what will happen to the mailing list? I'm so old school that I tend to dislike glitzified and webified information I cannot easily search locally. is there an email digest or something on the phpBB app?

[hertie]

Personally I like forums much better than mailing-lists. First of all forums tend to have better search-routines than web-archives of mailing lists. Second of all I dislike the flood of emails a popular mailinglist such as the toaster-list generates. Therefore forums are to my liking, cause the information is stored on a central accessible server and only there, whereas on a mailing-list the information is stored over and over again locally on thousnads of machines. This cannot be efficient, now can it?

Cheers for the foum Matt. I sure hope that people are going to get used to it!

[chny]

I'd have to agree with hertie on this one.

Forums also tend to be easier to swift trough for specific information without having to search the email archives. Threads and topics are also, at least for me, a lot easier to follow and contribute to.

Great work Matt!

[Guest]

...what will happen to the mailing list? Having to go TWO places for info or whatever cannot be very efficient, now can it?

Will the toaster camp split in two, or will Matt kill off the mailing list?

Looks like I'm going to answer my own question.
So long. You'll find me on the mailing list.

[hertie]

Anonymous

...what will happen to the mailing list? Having to go TWO places for info or whatever cannot be very efficient, now can it?

You've got a point there I have to give you that.

BUT: sticking with the mailing-list just because everybody got used to it and because you cannot change from one system to another overnight is not one of the patterns that made the net what it is now. On the contrary: people dealing with such a high-paced medium as the net of today (including of course mailservers) should embrace innovation and give new ideas a shot. (ok a bulltin board isn't that new, i am merely referring to this community) Can't we all agree on that?

Hmm, I sound like a priest when I am fighting for 'a cause'.. Sorry about that.