CGAL users discussion list

[Ben Supnik <>]

Hi,

Zohar Levi wrote:
> Ben, how can you feel comfortable talking  with someone over the mail, 
> that you don't know him that much, and everyone needs to get your 
> correspondence and you need to think twice before sending something?

Perhaps I should not feel comfortable in that situation.  I suppose my 
answer is this: a mailing list has to have some standard for what is 
discussed, in what form, etc., just as a forum would, and just as an 
open source community must, as a whole.  I can only hope that I have 
correctly guessed the community standards, or that if I have not, that 
someone representative of the community would email me off list and 
correct my behavior.

> Don't you think Efi's and yours last correspondence on a bug in the 
> arrangement should long ago have moved to a private email between you 
> two, or as a dedicated topic in a forum which only the ones who are 
> interested would go inside the topic and get updated?

Private mail: quite possibly.  Dedicated topic...to me, having a fairly 
specific title (in this case, the class in question and the nature of 
the activity) makes filtering easy, but this is just my opinion.

> If you don't like forum, avatar, searching each person posts, know how 
> serious he is, I think at least you should move to newsgroups to get the 
> messages organized in a tree inside your client.

The point of my original reply is _not_ to argue that mailing lists are 
better than forums.  Rather it was to argue that mailing lists are 
better than forums for me personally, which was really meant to make the 
general point that different users have different preferences for how 
they participate in group discussions.

I cannot claim that mailing lists are better than forums for you - it 
would be crazy for me to tell you what you like - and from your response 
it sounds like your frustration at having all mail 'pushed' is a 
fundamental flaw in mailing lists for you.

Either way the people who administer the CGAL user community will have 
to make a decision on how to best run a discussion group, and it won't 
please everybody.

cheers
Ben

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