Andy Streich wrote:
On Saturday 27 August 2005 01:25 pm, David Christensen wrote:
(Having just pushed the reply to list button in KMail...)
Great job summarizing the discussion and vote, David. I like your solutions
and, in the same spirit of offering ideas that I can't implement on my
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:51:23AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
IIRC there have been some forums setup to help debian users. But they
were never a success.
email has a kind of immediacy that the web doesn't. Not sure why.
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:51:23AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
2. I need to run a GUI to read the forum
I read a small number of web-based forums and I find that a text-mode
browser such as links actually makes them far more usable. If I am in a
graphical environment such as X (most of the
On Saturday 27 August 2005 01:25 pm, David Christensen wrote:
I have some ideas for a solution:
1. Educate debian-user mailing list readers (especially new ones) on
this issue. Put information into a new reader Welcome letter.
Put information into a FAQ. Make it prominent and easy
On Saturday 27 August 2005 07:15 pm, Andy Streich wrote:
As a supplement to (not replacement for) this email list, I'd really love
to see a weblog where anyone who registers (just like we subscribe to this
list) can post questions and comments. Ideally when signing up for a list
you could
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:57:59PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
All the severe usability and freedom-of-choice issues that hamper web boards
aside, the only thing starting a redundant forum serves to do is fracture the
user base. This is a Bad Thing, and serves only to harm users by making it
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 07:15:25PM -0700, Andy Streich wrote:
Opensource blog software is pretty good these days and simple to set up (at
Argh wordpress
1) the WP release model is incompatible with debian's security release
policy, in much the same way mozilla is:
[please please please trim your quoted text to what is relevant!]
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 07:15:25PM -0700, Andy Streich wrote:
Ideally when signing up for a list you could choose to be a weblog
user or a mailing-list user or both. Posts and comments on the blog
would be sent to the list
Andy Streich wrote:
As a supplement to (not replacement for) this email list, I'd really
love to see a weblog where anyone who registers (just like we
subscribe to this list) can post questions and comments. Ideally
when signing up for a list you could choose to be a weblog user or a
On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 17:37 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 07:15:25PM -0700, Andy Streich wrote:
Opensource blog software is pretty good these days and simple to set up (at
Argh wordpress
1) the WP release model is incompatible with debian's security release
Carl Fink wrote:
This mailing list already ... has a web interface (via Google
Groups).
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user
I didn't know about Google Groups -- thanks!
David
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On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 04:25:57PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
Carl Fink wrote:
This mailing list already ... has a web interface (via Google
Groups).
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user
I didn't know about Google Groups -- thanks!
Be warned, that's a one-way
I wrote:
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user
Carl Fink wrote:
Be warned, that's a one-way thing. Posts to linux.debian.user don't
appear in the mailing list. If you see something you want to respond
to, use e-mail to the list, not the GG functionality.
Ugh. I would ask
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 06:44:07PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
I wrote:
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user
Carl Fink wrote:
Be warned, that's a one-way thing. Posts to linux.debian.user don't
appear in the mailing list. If you see something you want to respond
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 06:30:15PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:57:59PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
All the severe usability and freedom-of-choice issues that hamper web
boards
aside, the only thing starting a redundant forum serves to do is fracture
the
user
On Sunday 28 August 2005 04:18 pm, Mark Crean wrote:
I suspect an important reason for the popularity of web boards is that
they provide a greater sense of community than a mailing list and
become, for some, a place to hang out. At present, though, I don't think
anyone's really cracked the
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 04:47:28PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
Tally thus far:
clearly voted reply to list6
clearly enough voted reply to sender 2
clearly abstained1
other ~74
I once belonged to
debian-user:
Here's the final tally:
clearly voted reply to list6
clearly enough voted reply to sender 2
clearly abstained1
other ~86
Thank you all for the quantity and quality of discussion on this
On Saturday 27 August 2005 01:25 pm, David Christensen wrote:
debian-user:
Here's the final tally:
clearly voted reply to list6
clearly enough voted reply to sender 2
clearly abstained1
other ~86
Tally thus far:
clearly voted reply to list6
clearly enough voted reply to sender 2
clearly abstained1
other ~74
David
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Tally thus far:
clearly voted reply to list5
clearly enough voted reply to sender 2
clearly abstained1
other ~63
David
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A reply that I assume was meant for the list, but sent to me directly.
David
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