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

[waldo kitty]

On 9/29/2012 09:54, Sven Barth wrote:
> 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.

exactly! i much prefer to sit down and read the messages that my mail reader 
pulls in... mailing lists are much nicer... NNTP requires something else as does 
access forums... i'm signed up with the FPC and LAZARUS lists as mailing lists 
and it is just a breeze to sit and go thru the messages in one swoop rather than 
having to fire up a newsreader and a browser and email client and so on...

> 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.

i'm just a user and i have the same sentiment ;)

>> 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

the OP may or may not see them that way, either... especially if their software 
renders them instead of just showing them or their code :/