Just playing devils advocate here for a bit. Here are some features that I like when I hit a forum that seem to be missing from nabble/mailing lists with search.
* Sticky posts i.e. dedicated threads that hang around. For a while there was a lot of trouble compiling octave on ubuntu and it really wasn't that easy to find the old posts. * Forum sections would be nice and search doesn't always work out. For example if I want to know what's going on in image processing in octave, I'm not sure all posts will have the term "image processing". * Forums can be easier to browse if you're just curious and want to learn. For example there could be a forum on vectorization tricks. How would you search for that? * Subscribing to a mailing list does seem to require a greater level of commitment than a forum including setting up filtering rules etc. Occasionally, I've hit a forum and I can answer a question I'll just create a quick account and join the discussion. * Search doesn't work if you don't know the shop-talk. Presumably an alternative would be to create separate mailing lists for each octave-help-ubuntu@, octave-help-image-processing@, octave-help-vectorization-tricks@, ... But to me that seems even worse than doing nothing. Supposedly, ubuntuforums.org is a vBullitin frontend to mailman. Maybe that could help? --judd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
