[FM Discuss] Alternate list interfaces

[Janet Swisher]

My suggestion would have no impact on those who are happy with the
list as it now works. It would simply provide an alternate means of
access for those prefer not to use email for this purpose, or who are
stuck with brain-dead mail clients.

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:32 PM, 0v . <vlax at espora.org> wrote:
>
> to me this discussion list is working fine
>
> the way you configure your e-mail client to read messages is the way it show them,
> with discussion lists like this always is a better idea to configure the client to show
> you and organize the threads
>
> Janet Swisher escribió:
>> How about linking to a newsgroup via Gmane? http://gmane.org/about.php
>>  With a name like "gmane.org.flossmanuals.discuss". That way, folks
>> who don't want to read the list in their mail client can read it via
>> the web or a newsreader. The link can be set up so that only
>> subscribers can post via Gmane.
>>
>> (Personally, I subscribe to this list via Gmail, which handles the
>> threading for me. I have found that that digests reduce only the
>> *number* of messages one receives, not the amount of work required to
>> read them, because it's tedious to skip messages in a digest.)
>>
>> Note that Gmane is not related to Google or Gmail, despite the
>> similarity of the name.
>>
>> --Janet
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:23 PM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> I am very sorry but we will not set up a yahoo or google group.
>>
>>> adam
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 21:05 +0100, Maria Inmaculada de la Torre wrote:
>>>> Hi, and sorry for asking for help in here but first I might have a
>>>> suggestion. Someone said that he found following the conversation in
>>>> this format a bit confusing. I must agree with that, and I have
>>>> thought that maybe it could interesting to have either a Yahoo or a
>>>> Google group, so that the option for the list in the way it is now,
>>>> with emails is there but there is also the possibility of seeing the
>>>> conversations in threads and separate by subjects as it works in
>>>> Google groups and I think in Yahoo too. That's just a suggestion in
>>>> case you might want to consider that