>>IMHO, it's in the tools, not in another archive that holds the same content.
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> What is mutt, but another (local) archive that holds the same content? 
> What makes the web forum view not just another tool?

mutt is a local tool for a local copy. It does not need to scale, because it
is an endpoint. my endpoint.

a webbased forum is a public proxy for an already complicated
newsgroup-mailinglist combo. The fact that it is possible to make this does
not make it a good idea by itself.

The specific argument I responded to is like "it provides me the view on the
list I never had" and that's IMHO an *extremely* thin argument.

The reason behind all this is that I fear needless fragmentation. The Ruby
community grows, it will have to fragment to some extent, we can't populate
a mailing list with ten times more people. Rails split off the main lists,
main IRC, even gets its own conference. Fine, it seems a clear cut
distinction (but given all other useful web frameworks in Ruby, I doubt it
deserves to be this clear cut).

We have to be critical of new development.

Kero.