On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:48:23AM -0600, David Burgess wrote: > My experience has been that the forum is good, but the mailing list is > better. Many capable folks hang out on the forum, but I suspect some
It's a different medium. For many mailing lists (push, not pull like web forums) read in a keystroke-driven text MUA with filtering are the most effective forms of communication by far (especially, if used properly). Of course, these days mailing lists are dying, and many (most?) developers didn't grew up on the medium. > of them don't visit often. Something in the inbox has a more immediate > effect. I tend to attempt to answer questions on the forum, but I ask > my questions on the list (with the exception of questions regarding > some packages. It seems some package maintainers are more active on > the forum or in IRC). IRC is also good, but somewhat complementary to email. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
