What do you think about a forum?

[Jack Coates]

On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 09:12, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Zachary Roth wrote:
> 
> >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?

you are aware that this is a Mailman list? Archives are on
varmint.moongroup.com, and while an htdig on varmint would be a little
better, Google still gets the job done:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=xfce+ken+moffat&btnG=Google+Search

> >
> >Just Something to consider. 
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> How about imap mail?
> I agree that a searchable forum is nice. Too bad there is no silver 
> bullet that would address all our needs. It might be asking a lot to 
> have a searchable mailing list archive?
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Jack Coates
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