>> Why on earth would you want to receive every single post on a topic via email. besides the network admin yelling about the traffic, I'd rather hit the site and search on the question when needed as opposed to getting every single email submission on a topic. The boards centralized area for posting and retreiving archive info, not my inbox.
We all have our own way of dealing with stuff. Speaking as my company's mail administrator, The network traffic argument doesn't hold - Mailing lists are text only, and a highly efficient use of bandwidth. 100 messages a day from peg is 500k or less of data. Every excel spreadsheet that comes through my mail server is at least 3mb. Indeed this web page itself is 11k.... anyway, I can digest a dozen emails on a list faster than progresstalk can refresh my "new messages" list . But all this is irrelevant........
This discussion should be focused on the following issue- discuss, agree or disagree:
As a relatively tiny developer community - And lets not argue about that either - Junior ( and senior) progress developers need access to all the experience they can get. Before the creation of this site, the resource to get that help was peg. Adding a second resource ( this board). doesn't increase the number of experienced people out there, it just spreads them thinner. The experienced make their choice as to which resource they are going to cover, so a question may go unanswered because the person who knows the answer has decided to support the alternative forum.
SO.......
I believe that the best enhancements for this forum would be to
1. Integrate messages from peg into the main boards, not segregate them into a separate area.
2. Automatically post responses to these questions back to peg.
3. Ultimately, post all the messages on the forum on to peg. Those of us who use mailing lists are entirely capable of managing, in our own way, a reasonable message volume ( Try subscribing to php.general at 600+ messages / week!!!!)
OR, create an integrated newsgroup from the 2 sources.
We're all the same community. Again, the only losers are those who want help.
Regards
Mark