great - I totally agree. Email is not for everyone. I tend to check lists "offline" on my phone, well some lists (like this) so I like lists. But for larger groups of people, forums are probably better.
Eg if you want help with your PS3, you will end up on a forum, not a mailing list. Perhaps, in time - the drools-user list will end up more as a forum, but I see the dev list probably staying as a mailing list with nabble/gmane forum-like access. Other projects I have noted have the split: developers of the project work on the mailing list, but users are on a forum. On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Mark Proctor <[email protected]> wrote: > Geoffrey De Smet wrote: > > Ok, nabble works and looks easier to use. > > So I propose we add a column "post question through website" and add > these entry's: > http://old.nabble.com/drools---user-f11823.html > http://old.nabble.com/drools---dev-f11824.html > > > ok, I'll add that later today. > > mark > > With kind regards, > Geoffrey De Smet > > > Geoffrey De Smet schreef: > > > Mark Proctor schreef: > > > Michael Neale wrote: > > > What is the experience like if people want to post to the lists from > gmane etc? Does it actually work? > > > Yes, because every single one of my post to the mailing list (including > this one) in the last 3 years are actually newsgroup posts to > gmane.comp.java.drools.devel or gmane.comp.java.drools.user. > > > > > > > gmane makes you verify the email from your own email box, so a bit of a > pain. > > > Actually, that's only your first post (per newsgroup). So when I just > start using project A (xstream) and want to post to the mailing list of > A (gmane.comp.java.xstream.user), I only have to verify my first post. > > > In any case, John Doe doesn't like littering his mailbox by subscribing > to a mailing list, so pointing him to something like gmane or nabble > will stop him from contacting developers directly (and lose the benefit > of the community). > Maybe nabble is better though: > http://old.nabble.com/drools---user-f11823.html > Gonna try posting from there to this list. > > With kind regards, > Geoffrey De Smet > > _______________________________________________ > rules-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > rules-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > rules-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev > > -- Michael D Neale home: www.michaelneale.net blog: michaelneale.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ rules-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev
