On Sep 11, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Andrea Faulds <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/09/2013 15:42, Leszek Krupiński wrote:
>> -1 - that would split discussions and force people interested in the subject to look at two
>> sources. --Leszek
> I actually had a solution to that:
>
> >Perhaps the software could be implemented such that all posts and replies on it would also
> >be sent to the mailing list in the appropriate format, so that people reading the mailing list could
> >still see what was going on.
>
> A web interface on top of the mailing list with an upvote/downvote layer could provide this, so
> long as it's intelligent enough. This way, people would still be able to use the mailing list
> directly, but could also look at the web view with its hierarchical format and upvotes and
> downvotes. It also means people could use the web interface exclusively if they wished.
If the forum would be a way to access the same data in a different way, it's ok. But the
'votes' remind me of "protests" on Facebook that have thousands of
'likes' but completely no impact. RFCs are a place for voting, and mailing lists are a
place for expressing opinions.
--Leszek