On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 12:55, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> I personally find web forums and newsgroups much more difficult to
> manage than a simple e-mail list. If we switched to such a format, I
> for one would probably be heard from a lot less...not because of any
> change in desire to help, but just because it would be much more
> inconvinent to stay on top of current traffic without it piling up in my
> inbox as a reminder to go through it. :)
Charles,
Agreed. In any case forums if implemented wouldn't replace our MLs. They
would be in addition to.
> While I think per-distribution lists might be a solution, I think all
> current LEAF flavors benifit from having a single list. I know I've
> answered questions from folks running Oxygen and Bering, and have seen
> users of other disto's answer questions relating to Dachstein.
I now agree with Ray's position on this. This decision should be up to
the release/branch lead developer. Personally, I like having all the
user questions on one list.
> I would suggest an alternative option:
> Keep things as they are, but indicate the list is fairly high-traffic
> (so folks are not unplesently suprised). I also suggest pointing out
> the option of not subscribing to the list, but rather monitor one of the
> list archives for answers to their posts. Combined with the using
> "respond to all" when replying to list messages, this should be pretty
> workable.
>
> NOTE: Since the various list archives have tended to have less than
> amazing reliability and usefulness when searching, should we maybe try
> to setup our own searchable list archive?
Have you tried the search engine at MARC. Our lists are archived there
now. I'm also looking at GMANE, but there are some MIME questions I have
to answer first.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=leaf-cvs-commits&r=1&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=leaf-devel&r=1&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=leaf-hardware&r=1&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=leaf-user&r=1&w=2
If we get a valid post to leaf-announce this year, I'm sure it'll show
up too.
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