Greetings Programs!
Sorry for all the downtime with the mailing lists, they're back up now
(obviously) but will be taking them down again in the next few days for
their migration to a new server.
I wrote a more detailed write up to the devel mailing list [1] if anyone
wants to know
On 13/10/2016 02:24, Dave Warren wrote:
> More importantly, nearly every case I've seen where an active community
> of technically inclined helpers assist novice users moves from a mailing
> list to a forum, many/most of the helpers don't go with it, leaving the
> forums a barren wasteland of users
ted out, that one of the key
problems with forums is that they require users to actually visit them
to actually participate (rather than merely consume other people's
discussions by email).
I am a member of a great many mailing lists but only a few forums. The
dynamics of community connection dif
On 08/10/2016 23:35, David Woolley wrote:
> On 08/10/16 22:49, Alex Oren wrote:
>> Are there any compelling reasons not to use an internet forum?
>>
>> Their many advantages over mailing lists include:
>> - Easier searching for existing solutions.
>> - Fine-grained
nitive load and time-suck, neither of which are pluses.
Or maybe that's just me. At my peak I was actively reading over 200
mailing lists and newsgroups, actively participating in and contributing
to at least 100 on a weekly basis and virtually all on a semi-regular
(monthly) basis. Some I just r
is an order of magnitude more trolling on forums
than on mailing lists.
Regards,
David
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On 08-10-2016 18:23, Brian Morrison wrote:
On Sat, 8 Oct 2016 17:49:15 -0400
Alex Oren wrote:
Are there any compelling reasons not to use an internet forum?
Comes to me automatically, I don't have to visit a forum.
Email notifications (with full text).
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On 08-10-2016 18:35, David Woolley wrote:
On 08/10/16 22:49, Alex Oren wrote:
Are there any compelling reasons not to use an internet forum?
Their many advantages over mailing lists include: - Easier
searching for existing solutions. - Fine-grained control over
email notifications. - The
On 08/10/16 22:49, Alex Oren wrote:
Are there any compelling reasons not to use an internet forum?
Their many advantages over mailing lists include:
- Easier searching for existing solutions.
- Fine-grained control over email notifications.
- The ability to display prominent explanation of what
On Sat, 8 Oct 2016 17:49:15 -0400
Alex Oren wrote:
> Are there any compelling reasons not to use an internet forum?
Comes to me automatically, I don't have to visit a forum.
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Brian
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