[fpc-other] Last message about changes (guaranteed!)

[Sven Barth]

On 29.09.2012 14:36, Cephas Atheos wrote:
> Of course I'm assuming that those statistics are wrong (by at least a
> couple of orders of magnitude!), so it would help if we could find out
> the actual size, in terms of storage capacity and number of messages. If
> you've got a typical mail list archive, we'd need to think about how to
> migrate 50,000 or so individual messages from each year into the
> database, which would imply that we need pretty robust automated tools.

While changing the software used for the community forum is one thing I 
suspect that most developers here won't be very happy if we'd abandon 
the mailing lists. I personally - and some others as well it seems - 
prefer them much over any forum. What could be a possible "compromise" 
as was already suggested by Graeme is a NNTP system as a backend and a 
web based (forum like) front end for those users that prefer a forum.

Note: I'm just a compiler developer and not a manager of the site. So 
this is just my own opinion.

> P.S. Sven, if you're referring to my spelling using the letter 's',
> that's because I'm Australian, and we use the British system of spelling
> words ending in –ize with an 's'. Hopefully that explains what you
> wanted to know! Otherwise, I'm afraid I have no idea what you mean by
> the "S" question you posed, but please clarify if you need! Hope this
> helps! -Pete

I don't mean the "S" in the sense of English grammar rules. There is 
some encoding problem with your mails and I'm not the only one that sees 
that as Graeme and Mark said in the following two mails: 
http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-other/2012-September/000719.html 
http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-other/2012-September/000718.html

Regards,
Sven