I agree about both. With regard to mailing lists, I am very fond of mailing lists that provide a bottom notice that (1) instructs people in a near-trivial means to unsubscribe and (2) provides a link to the public archive. It removes a lot of mystery, especially because I prune mail folders and often need to go back.
- Dennis PS: A bonus that I have not seen is a list server that also includes links to the archives for each post included in a digest or in the bottom-notice of individual list forwardings. -----Original Message----- From: Andy Brown [mailto:a...@the-martin-byrd.net] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 14:58 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Contributors versus Committers versus PMC members - AND USERS Rob Weir wrote: > Does anyone see a difference other than the obvious difference of > technology, between the OOo user list and the forums? Are they being > used for different kinds of things? Or are they just different ways > of doing the same things? > > -Rob > There is a big difference from the users stand point. If you want to see how "hot" this topic can get go to [1] and search for forum . As an individual I prefer mailing list but I understand why some prefer forums. For those that do not have high speed connections forums are a bandwidth hog. The disadvantage to a mailing list is most of the time you have to be subscribed or you may miss replies to your question and makes it hard to follow up as needed. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@documentfoundation.org/ For my part we need and can support both. Andy
