It's interesting.. cos I'm a big proponent of message forum/bulletin board type systems, it's great to see the interaction amongst people etc. And Costas has some very valid arguments for why/how they provide value. I came in to this thread early on with a "Hmm, yeah, I like forum systems too" mentality but I have to admit that's changed now.
I know a bunch of forums that are out there, yet visit infrequently. My email though, I read every day - who doesn't?! Throw in a few filters and I get everything nicely separated in to folders. Threading can be a pain, especially when you mix read versus unread messages and stuff, but I'll put that more down to Outlook (and maybe my ineptitude at using it?) than anything else. Someone mentioned www.gmane.org - I had a quick look. This seems to be sexy and gives you the best of both worlds. Web acccess if you want it, threaded "a la usenet" discussions using regular newsreading software, and all fronting a traditional mailing list style of operation. The biggest argument for mail list and/or usenet style discussion is that offline reading is possible, something that definitely doesn't work for web based forums. Although I've never done it offline, the argument wins me over as I realise the value of it. SO.. We all have different preferences, the mailing list stays as a mailing list, maybe more people will check out gmane.org who were previously unaware (I'm one of them), and maybe someone will go out and write a mailing list to phpBB gateway? ;-) I'd rather people worked on documentation and bugs for Asterisk though... Any other final comments, or can we get back on track with core Asterisk stuff? :-) Cheers Paul _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
