I think we should consider people who actually read their list email,
too
(myself being one of them, as it happens). With email, you get
notification
automatically, one could say.
IMHO, authentication of email is so good, either. Original beauty of
email
was that everyone could write to you. If you want authentication, go for
IM.
Aarno
On 18.7.2005, at 18.21, Stephane Rosa wrote:
Well, I think that forums can easily (and should) replace mailing
lists. I
see several reasons for this :
1) Search. Searching mailing lists archives is painful, and I'm
sure most
people will just post the same question again without trying to search
first. Forums are much more efficient in searching by subject, body,
poster, date, etc.
2) Organisation. Beside major groups like bugs, devel, user, most
forums
provide sub-groups allowing to segregate a group in several major
areas
(e.g. Development->Web Interface, Development->Core, etc)
3) Traffic. I'm an Internet Ecologist(tm) and I strongly see the
mailing
list traffic as a totally useless bandwidth nuisance, mostly
because when
someone subscribes to a mailing list he reads everything the first
week,
the second week he deletes without reading, the third week he
creates an
automatic folder rule and never reads most of the content ever again.
Spam moderation is not so much of an issue, as long as you have to be
authenticated to post, and being part of several dozens of forums
I never
seen any spam in them.
That's my 0.02$ advocacy, hope it helps :-D
Cheers
Clipper
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yasser Sultan
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 16:03
To: users@kannel.org
Subject: RE: Kannel Message Boards?
IMO It would be great if you consult the Kannel project
maintainers and have their views about it, so that you can
have official forums just like the mailing list
yes, I agree that the they should be on the kannel site
hosted on a subdomain or something like kannel.org/forums
The only problem with forums is that they also need to
closely moderated because of spam and other useless messages
that people often post
Regards
Yasser
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From: "Anand Gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Anand Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bill Brigden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: users@kannel.org
Subject: RE: Kannel Message Boards?
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:51:40 +0530
Would people see the mailing lists as redundant if there >were web
based
forums?
well both can serve the purpose, at times mailing lists are
better and
sometimes forums.
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Anand Gupta
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Subject: RE: Kannel Message Boards?
Author: "Bill Brigden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18th July 2005 1:32:16
What do other people think about the possibility of having a
web forum?
Would people see the mailing lists as redundant if there
were web based
forums?
As far as the name / location - could it be put under kannel.org,
either as being hosted there, or using a sub domain
(forums.kannel.org?) pointing elsewhere?
Regards,
Bill.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anand Gupta
Sent: 18 July 2005 12:58
To: Gareth Reakes
Cc: Bill Brigden; users@kannel.org
Subject: Re: Kannel Message Boards?
I am ready to register and host the forums if members here can
recommend a domain for the same. I posted earlier also however no
commented till now.
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Anand Gupta
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Subject: Re: Kannel Message Boards?
Author: "Gareth Reakes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18th July 2005 10:34:28
Hey,
I think it would be a good idea. Who is going to take
the lead on
this?
Gareth
Bill Brigden wrote:
Just a short note to say I would be willing to help in any
ways (within
reason!) necessary..
Bill.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yasser Sultan
Sent: 15 July 2005 17:28
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: users@kannel.org
Subject: Re: Kannel Message Boards?
I don't think that they will be too resource intensive form
hosting point of view, so It should not be a problem
for anyone to
set them up.
Yeah I will be willing to help :)
-Cheers
Yasser
From: Gareth Reakes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Yasser Sultan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kannel Message Boards?
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:15:54 +0100
Hey Yasser,
Yasser Sultan wrote:
Why doesn't kannel has its forums or online discussion boards?
Don't you think that with them it will be easier to keep
track of the
things
and help can be provided in a better way, considering the
features and
options present in the modern bulletin board systems
Thank You
Probably because no one has set one up yet :)
You offering?
Gareth
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