Le 07/02/2014 10:58, Mike Ro a écrit :

>> Why? Don't you have access to an email client? You simply reply to the
>> list.
>>
> Okay yes and to prove it here I am replying by email! The problem is
> that I tend to delete emails once I have read them, so to look at old
> messages I have to go to the archive.

or going to http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.firebird.user

or even to news://news.gmane.org:119/gmane.comp.db.firebird.user

or http://www.mail-archive.com/firebird-support@yahoogroups.com/

as said here :

http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/mailing-lists/

Yes, these places are what I mean by "going to the archive". For my personnel workflow none of these user interfaces are as intuitive to use or provide as much information as a forum interface does.

For example in the mail archives you get a full list of the whole tree or pages full of messages. A forum concisely lists the title of each topic, the number of replies and how many people viewed it. If you want to dig deeper you can.

I guess there will always be people who prefer the forum interface and those who prefer mailing lists so it won't be an easy one to resolve (nor will it affect in anyway my sincere appreciation of all who contribute to the Firebird project).