What do you think about a forum?

[Zachary Roth]

All,

I agree that e-mail is a great method. The largest disadvantage to
e-mail for some of us IT dork types is that, personally I do not use one
PC. At home I use one box, at work several boxes, etc; While at home I
am on evolution, work use yahoo with pop mail to access various
accounts, etc; 

While it is feasible to develop a "best practice" for one individual
saving this valuable information that comes through the mailing list, I
simply believe that centralizing intellectual properties is necessary in
this crazy world. 

Wouldn't it be nice to have it in one place, search able, scalable and
archive-able?

Just Something to consider. 

Zack

On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 08:30, Moritz Heiber wrote:
> 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,