[Samba] call for a forum to replace the mailing list?

[Gary Dale]

On 18/02/11 03:58 PM, Chris Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Mac<webreg.samba.org at panscend.com>  wrote:
>    
>> May be a forum would be better?
>>      
> Forums suck.
>
> Mailling lists are good.
>
> An NNTP newsgroup might even be better - but they seem to have gone
> the way of the Dodo as the main frontend.
> This list archived as such - nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.samba.general
>
> Chris
>    
Victims of spam. NNTP was killed by spammers harvesting e-mail addresses 
and/or posting spam on the lists.

On the other hand, e-mail lists give you a much better response rate 
because all e-mails hit the participant's inbox.