----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 5:45 PM Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] website maintainer wanted
> Oh, well. I am not talking about killing the mail list or something like > that. Forums would run in parallel. > > This is probably very much personal preference but IMHO I simply like > forums for these reasons: > a) you go there on request, when you want to > b) your mail address is not published anywhere (spam, again) > c) threads are very well visible > d) do not know how about you but I am not keeping all messages in my > mailbox and on local disk. Therefore if I want to search for any > messages I go to the web archive anyway > e) if some interesting thread concerning my problems was already on the > mailing-list while I was not subscribed already, I will miss that and: > - either must go to web search anyway > - or am bothering with the sam questions over and over again (which will > be exactly the case once I find little time and summarize the troubles I > have with my DVB-T card :) ) > f) and this is purely my assumption - more people realize web is > searchable and do the search. If they do not find info on the web they > go and fire the question. This puts evidently more load on developers. > this one is indexed on the web and very good searchable http://www.mail-archive.com/freevo-users%40lists.sourceforge.net/ perhaps mentioning worth on the website....................something for the maintainer? it's my wiki............ allthough a forum is a good idea, it's more troublesome as receiving a mail..... > OK, as I said, it is personal preference. > D > > TC Wan wrote: > > > > > On Wed, September 29, 2004 12:11 am, Dale Cooper said: > > > > >Also, what I was wondering, would not be adding support-forums helpfull? > > >E.g. phpBB? > > > > > > Dunno. I prefer a simple mailing list so that I don't have to login to > > check for new messages. > > > > T.C. > > -- > > Wan Tat Chee (Lecturer) > > School of Computer Sciences, Univ. of Science Malaysia, > > 11800 USM, Penang, Malaysia. Rm.625 Ofc Ph: +604 653-3888 x 3617 > > NRG Lab Admin: +604 659-4757 Rm.601-F Ofc Ph: +604 653-4396 > > Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan > > GPG Key : http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan/tcwan-nrg-20040805.asc > > F'print : 4B2E F0BF AAD7 2F51 CB41 4386 F72B 7859 8278 BDC4 > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal > Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us > Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
