Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:87544 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 44257 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2015 22:15:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Aug 2015 22:15:16 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 68.118.157.39 68-118-157-39.dhcp.mdsn.wi.charter.com Received: from [68.118.157.39] ([68.118.157.39:4726] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id E5/B0-40707-3769EB55 for ; Sun, 02 Aug 2015 18:15:16 -0400 Message-ID: To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 17:15:12 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <41.B2.09373.B881EB55@pb1.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <41.B2.09373.B881EB55@pb1.pair.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 68.118.157.39 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Move internals discussion to a better medium From: me@stephencoakley.com (Stephen Coakley) On 08/02/2015 08:17 AM, Markus Malkusch wrote: > Niklas Keller wrote: >> 2015-08-02 14:32 GMT+02:00 Markus Malkusch : >> >>> What wrong with ? >> >> That's a joke, right? > > No it's not, why should it? You did notice the news:// scheme, did you? > >> We're discussing issues here, so what's wrong with an issue tracker? > > Ok, that's a valid point. > >> I can see more than one benefit. Probably most important is that you can >> follow just some things, instead of getting all the mails. Additionally, >> you can ping people > > I don't see that point. Newsreader can follow discussions as well. And what > benefit has pinging, compared to a direct email? > >>> Let's reference something then >> >> That's a mailto link for me as well. > > Well, that's because you are using a mail client. OP was complaining about > the limited interfaces. Use a Newsreader and there you have your reference. > Even Google is able to follow that. > >> If you want to build and provide a good search engine around it > > I don't, news.php.net is public and search engines for news server do exist. > Google once did search them as well, don't know how it is nowadays though. > > Markus Malkusch > You have to admit, NNTP news is an aging technology, with fewer and fewer readers available as time goes on. Nowadays (for graphical clients), there's Pan, and Thunderbird, and...? I use Thunderbird at the moment, because I didn't want to fill up my email, and there aren't too many readers. Heck, Thunderbird is technically a "discontinued" product. -- Stephen Coakley