Forums require users to visit them and participate. An email list arrives in my inbox. That's both an advantage and a disadvantage. It keeps the topics in front of me on a daily basis and keeps me involved but it does clutter my inbox. Despite the best of intentions, I generally won't visit an online forum as part of a community. I'll go there if I have a question, hang around a bit so I don't feel like a leech, but life intervenes and I forget to keep hanging around learning about LinuxCNC and helping others when I can.
It's also easier for me to save the emails that have useful info so I can search offline later. That's another advantage of the email list. But then again, I'm email-centric. I'm accustomed to filing email for later reference. Cutting and pasting info from a forum post into a file is more hassle and not nearly as searchable, although I do realize that the online forum can be searched. On 07/10/2013 02:47 PM, Shannon Watson wrote: > Why do you choose the email list over using a community forum? I really > appreciate the mail list being available to communicate with you but, it's > kinda antiquated. This is 2013 the buliten board system has been replaced > with newer better technologies. We have the internet and community forums. I > have a computer in my pocket that runs on a google developed system. It would > be beneficial for the mail list to be retired and a movement to the forms > take place. I'm glad you asked. Fourms are current, everyone knows how to use > a forum they teach 3rd graders in school how to use a forum. LinuxCNC.org has > a link to the forums. The people that are new to LinuxCNC can find the forum > to ask questions. If you really want this to become popular it needs to be > convenient, not hidden in the IRC or mail list. I had to register to use the > forum just list using the mail list. I'll see you in the forum. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
