OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria Standard Library on UBoard

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Jul 24, 2005
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Tommy Carlier wrote:

> Juergen Luethje wrote:
>> I also think it's a good idea, for people who like to communicate on web
>> forums. So thank you for supporting the ESL project!
>>
>> I personally would highly prefer that we send e-mails, using the CC
>> feature, for internal discussions. I think my e-mail provider even
>> allows me to set up a mailing-list. So if we actually want to have an
>> ESL mailing-list, I'll try to create it.
>>
>> When there is substantial discussion on UBoard, we'll have to find a way
>> how that stuff is included in the ESL papers:
>>
>> a) Maybe someone posts a summary here on EUforum, so that I can do so.
>>                 or
>> b) probably better: Someone else will maintain the ESL papers.
>>    1) We'll put the papers on a different website.
>>                 or
>>    2) The papers will stay where they are. Someone sends me the updated
>>       HTML file(s), and I'll just upload them on my website.
>>
>> Everything will be OK for me, except expecting me to participate in web
>> forum discussions.
>
> I agree, but the UBoard has some advantages: different topics can be
> discussed in separate threads, all the posts are easily accessible
> for everyone to read, and voting about a topic can be made easy via
> the polling functionality UBoard offers.

I'm sorry, it seems that I expressed myself unclear. I know how UBoard
works, and I know how other webforums work. I did not and do not want to
discuss about the pros and cons of UBoard or of webforums in general.

I was talking about __my personal__ preferences. Quoting from a previous
post of mine:
| Using any web forum -- this is not limited  to a specific forum -- is
| for me personally about 5 to 10 times more complicated than using
| e-mail. And so it takes much longer for me, and I really don't like web
| forums.

I could now explain to you the reasons why. But this would cost me a
considerable amount of time, and also I think that it should not be
necessary. I just expect people to accept it. I actually feel free to
use only tools that work efficiently __for me__.

<snip>

Regards,
   Juergen