Ian, You are welcome to extoll the benefits of other forums and make recommendations, but do not discourage members from discussing ANY technical EDA question on the PEDA forum regardless of software version.
At 02:53 PM 12/2/2003, Ian Wilson wrote:
At 02:22 PM 2/12/2003 -0800, you wrote:At 01:57 PM 12/2/2003, Tony Karavidas wrote:<snip> Why are people asking DXP questions on the PEDA list? You'll probably get more answers on the DXP list. <snip>
Tony, this list is intended for discussion of all EDA technical questions including those of DXP.
Not all users of DXP are a member of the Protel run list, so discussions here may present unique solutions and points of view. Also, the discussion forums on this site do not have as many restrictions as the Protel run forum.
Yes - except there have already been quite a few examples of incomplete, incorrect, confusing ... answers due to people not clearly stating what version of Protel they are using.
First of all, the question WAS clearly identified as a DXP issue. Secondly, members have always needed to specify which software they are using whether its Autotrax, Adv PCB, EDA Client 3, P98, P99, P99SE, DXP or whatever. Its worked well enough over the past years. So what's new? Someone occasionally forgetting to specify a version is hardly reason enough to shun future discussions on the user forums.
Separate user forums for each software package would alleviate the problem of confusing the version but it presents others problems such as maintaining enough critical mass on each forum so the lesser used forums don't die. And what becomes of the issues that are cross-application or issues that don't neatly fit into a single category. The forums would quickly become a free for all and much worse off than before. Protel can easily have a DXP only forum because they simply don't support their past software.
The answers on DXP issues here are not as complete (or as many) as those on the Altium Forum. I know I invest more time there than here.
Well, if users such as those on the PEDA forum have an incomplete or incorrect knowledge of DXP, isn't the PEDA forum a great place to educate them? That's why we run these forums! DXP discussions on the PEDA forum will be inferior and doomed if members get harangued every time they bring up a DXP issue.
It is nice that Protel finally introduced a permanent support forum. The user forums and the Protel forum complement each other well and I'd recommend using Protel's DXP forum. But do we want a Protel owned forum as our only source of support? If we're not going to discuss DXP on the user forums, then we might as well just shut them down now.
If people post DXP issues here ...
...they should expect fewer answers, and no answers from Altium employees, than if they posted on the Altium forums.
The forums are publicized as USER forums and as such most members understand that they shouldn't expect support from Protel employees on the forums. The fact that these are user forums is their greatest asset. We get email after email from new members saying they get better and faster support on the user forums than from Protel. That situation will quickly change unless we discuss DXP as freely as any other issue.
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