On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 23:28, TyrusMaynard wrote: > Joseph, > By "forum style" do you mean the accumulated archives of an email list?
That is the "motherload" of searchable archives. And it works great with google. A backend to usenet is useful sometimes as well. > I have wrongly assumed that your invitation was to a forum but I now > realize that the link is to mailman listinfo for an email list instead. > Whether > or not there is successful splitting of the community tools, I believe a > forum > would be a better mode No it would be a disaster. In fact, RMS wouldn't even have access to a "forum" because he never uses the net and fetches his mail by scping his /var/spool/mail directory and using rmail in emacs. A forum is for control freaks who feel great need to have control of discussions. Its a disaster for grepping through messages, quickly addressing issues while at work, and general communication. It's just sucks. It's a crackpot cooperate idea based on control of the information which stymies conversation and innovation. And it is further propagated as idea by AOL junkies who never used compuserve. Every "forum" I've ever seen from match.com to Oracles Tech Forum has been designed and successfully stymied contributions for the sake of control. Even Slashdot have limited use as a communications mechanism. If you can't use mutt to communicate with the medium, then the medium is about worthless. > for either of the split. If a mother lode of VistaOffice > develops...it would be better served by a true forum for later mining. > I have heard of forums that cross post to a mailman archive ...but I have > not > seen the application that will receive traditional email posts and cross post > them to a "forum" archive * as original copy+signature without redundant > thread > copy* . What a deal ...everybody presented consistently without automated > thread > copy in replies (as I am practicing below)! Wiki is yet another paradigm > Screw it. Let the threads be redundant, and redundant again. Of just point someone to the darn archive with google, which is really a RTFM thingie which should have been done before asking a technical question. > Thanks for your work in making all this commotion. > Rusty aka Tyrus > I'm not enjoying this. This is ding dong, stupid idea of the week, the kind of thing which is bound to arise every few months from newbies without any real experience working on a collaborative project outside of their cooperate visio/AOL/slaveware experience. Ruben ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
