Forums are far more useful as a "help database" than 1970s mailing list archives ever will be. Forums allow problems and threads to have statuses, such as SOLVED. They also allow the original poster and/or the host to flag the message which actually solved the problem.
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 08:20 -0600, Ken Springer wrote: > On 6/3/11 3:05 AM, James Wilde wrote: > > > Personally I think mailing lists are so last century and nerdy, and > that we should be using a > > forum which non-technical users like > > OH, how I hate forums. :-( > > > > -- > Ken > > Mac OS X 10.6.7 > Firefox 3.6.17 > Thunderbird 3.1.10 > LibreOffice 3.3.2 > > -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions (630)-205-1593 http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net No U.S. troops have ever lost their lives defending our ethanol reserves. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
