Re: We need a forum!

[Jamie Webb <j@...>]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 09:53:40AM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> 
> >First, I can work offline.  I'm offline right now in fact.  My job lately
> >has taken me to many interesting places.  I'm usually quite busy there, and
> >network connectivity has been expensive, sporadic, broken, filtered, and/or
> >unbelievably slow.  (Boldly exploring the limits of packet loss my OS's TCP
> >implementation can tolerate.)
> 
> Really, this depends on how important Lua is to you (as people have said 
> before). Personally, if I'm 'offline', I don't want to know about Lua 
> stuff. Getting the mailing list messages uses up bandwidth I'd rather not 
> use if possible.. I'd rather it wait until I get back to the office.
> 
> If I'm on limited bandwidth, I want to just get messages which are 
> important.
> 
> I could "turn off" my subscription to the mailing list, but that means that 
> I won't get the messages into my email client at all (the mailing list 
> won't serve them to me when I turn my subscription back on), so I have part 
> of the data locally, and part on the mailing list archive - so I've lost my 
> email client's searchability. A forum wouldn't have that. All the data 
> would always be in the same place.

You could either get a separate free account for stuff you don't want
to download at home, or switch to using the NNTP or Web interfaces.

-- Jamie Webb