Accidentally replied to Dan privately, but wanted to keep the conversation public so that anyone else could voice their opinions as well......
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: jim <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 3:47 PM Subject: Re: [UPHPU] UPHPU on Twitter To: "Daniel C." <[email protected]> And Dan wrote: > You've overshot me by 40 years :p Of course, I wasn't guessing your age. I was merely giving my opinion of the age of a person that may share the perspective you described. > >> it would be awesome for twitter to become another common means >> of uphpu questions/answers/communications. > > Yeah, it would be great if we had a place we could go to that's online > where we can ask PHP-related questions and get quick responses. > Someplace where you can have conversations and get feedback from a lot > of PHP experts, all in one place. Someplace like #uphpu on > irc.freenode.net. Wow. It's almost like it didn't reference the irc channel as a valuable source in my first post! As previously stated, I agree that IRC, uphpu.org, and the mailing list are all valuable resources. Again, I just think that Twitter could be easily added to said library of "valuable resources". And superior in many ways, one of which being that it would self-store the information [of nifty PHP tips] easily. Adding a new tool wouldn't lessen the value of any of the other tools already in place. Don't be afraid. If you prefer the IRC, then use it. Sheesh. Saying that we have IRC could just as easily be seen as [from your perspective] a valid reason to not have a mailing list, or vise versa, which is just silly. Hey! We already have a web site with a forum/posting board, why bother with anything else [like IRC or mailing lists], right? Pretty silly eh? Dan, I really don't understand your vehemence on this. Again, if you don't like the idea, don't join. It's that simple. Why put forward such opposition to something that could just as easily be ignored by anyone that isn't interested, rather than trying to convince everyone that your distaste for a tool should be spread and shared by all. _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
