On Apr 16, 2007, at 7:56 AM, Jerry Amundson wrote: > On 4/16/07, Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote: >>> This decision is motivated by the fact that the number of emails >>> has grown to >>> be quite large, and hence to read them all requires a good deal >>> of time. >> I think there is a big need for a bacula-newbies list... >> The same questions do tend to be cropping up repeatedly. > That, I think, would be better served by a decently organized and > maintained Wiki/FAQ.
Just my two cents... While a better wiki-faq is almost always a good thing, I think that in terms of reducing e-mail traffic and helping with the "dumb questions", a forum system might be another alternative. I don't think adding a "newbies" list will really help--few people will restrict themselves to the newbie list and then only escalate to the 'users' list once a significant time has passed. The two lists would be too similar to have a strong distinction, and most people with one-off questions are likely to cast their net widely enough (ie: address to both) "just in case". If you build it, they will skip it. The Users and Devel lists don't quite have this problem due to a clear separation of topics, but any newbies are unlikely to be able to know if their question is dumb or not almost by definition. A forum would keep inboxes from becoming cluttered, and represents a relatively low barrier to entry for many users. Personally, I find it less of an subjective psychological investment to make a pseudonymous forum account than to join a mailing list. My not-experimentally- verified belief is that newbies presented with a choice of forum versus e-mail list will choose the forum. -- --Darien A. Hager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
