-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Didn't realize Dale cc'ed the users list. I think I'd ask the question to the group as well.....
- ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] website maintainer wanted Hi Dale, On Wed, September 29, 2004 11:45 pm, Dale Cooper said: > 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. > > OK, as I said, it is personal preference. That's fine. However, what's the difference between having an archived mailing list vs. a proper forum? I can see that the thread support is better in a forum, and potentially better spam protection. I wonder if there's a forum software that can send out daily digests as well? 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBW3hu9yt4WYJ4vcQRAgn4AKDC2V3Xw5TQuZTC/akRH2T/xbTbiwCgoGxF HM7ponXUAKTsK3A/ZhmRQ18= =T1zj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- 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
