Hi, Dirk Hohndel wrote: > The problem is that the people who should answer the questions in the > forums likely aren't reading the forums. > > Simple example - I spent 17 hours in airplanes over the last 48 > hours. It's easy enough to deal with email - download, respond, send out > the next time you're connected. Forums? Not so much. Same goes for > search, easy notification, all that. Email is just much easier FOR ME to > deal with.
Here's what I said back in the day: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=472500&postcount=38 I wrote: > I'll happily switch to using the community forum when it gets some features > that I have with the maemo-community mailing list: > > 1. The ability to store messages offline, and tag or label them so that I > can save and easily identify those messages which require action from me > 2. Threaded discussions so that I can easily see who is replying to who > 3. Automatic and immediate notification of all new posts to the forum > 4. The ability to archive discussions that interest me to a separate view > for later reference > 5. A dynamically updating list of people who I reply to and which I can > use to contact them offline privately I would also add to that, I think, the ability to reply to messages offline & send them when I get back online (very useful on planes & trains). Is there a good reason not to use Google Groups, aside from, you know, the whole Google thing? Cheers, Dave. -- maemo.org docsmaster Email: dne...@maemo.org Jabber: bo...@jabber.org _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
