What do you think about a forum?

[Moritz Heiber]

On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 07:54:36 -0700
Jack Coates <jack at monkeynoodle.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 06:59, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > sweiss3 at walla.co.il wrote:
> > 
> > >Hey all. I was wondering if maybe it's possible to have a forum
> > >rather than (or in edition to) the mailing list. 
> > >
> > personally I prefer mailing lists. So my preference would be "in 
> > addition to".
> 
> exactly. This argument has come up on several of the support
> communities I help out in -- basically it rages back and forth for
> about a week, until it becomes clear that the developers and power
> users are all email people and the newbies looking for help are all
> forum people.

I second that for 100%.
 
> Feel free to build a forum on your own that can be linked from the
> xfce.org site, but don't ask the developers to take time, and
> recognize the need for a bridging function to get material from the
> mailing lists inserted into the forum.

Exactly, build up a forum and we can put up a link on www.xfce.org.

> Jack Coates

Bye,

-- 
Moritz Heiber

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