[ic] Re: FORUM - instead of Mailing List

[Nathan D. Olmscheid]

OK, these posts are getting a little old now. I beleive this subject of this 
message was talked about several messages ago, and many agreed that it would 
not be smart to REPLACE (INSTEAD OF) the mailing list, but to have it as an 
addition. I think the first poster chose terrible subject line. 

Me, as a person who frequents forums, feels they have a lot to offer. Much 
more organized, and usually searching works much better. The feature to 
subscribe to a particular thread and then to be able to follow it in your 
email box is very nice also. 

To many people are shunning this idea as they don't like change, and I don't 
feel many people have even given it a chance. There are serveral posts a day 
in here saying that forums, are terrible, and if you think that so be it, 
your entitled to your opinion, but don't say they are terrible when you have 
not tried one. (I talked to a poster in this forum who said they suck, asked 
him what forums he uses, and said he doesn't, they "LOOK" like they would be 
a pain. 

Like I said, I do not think the mailing list should be REMOVED, but I think 
we could all asset from the addition of the forum as well. 

I personally do like the email list as well, but I feel that the searching 
the archive is pretty bad. I also really like Interhcangeville.com which has 
been started as everything is neatly organized and very easily 
searchable.....granted there are only 150 posts now. 

So, no, I do not think we should get RID of the list, but I think it would 
benefit a lot of people to post at Interchangeville as well. 

Nathan 

Peter Jakl writes: 

> Things that rule in 2002! 
> 
> 10. perl (starting at the bottom)
> 9. any linux
> 8. redhat linux 7.2
> 7. html
> 6. mysql
> 5. interchange
> 4. [query] tag
> 3. homesite 5.0 (for html editing)
> 2. vi
> 1. mailing list (don't touch what works!) 
> 
> Peter 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com
> [mailto:interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com]On Behalf Of
> Jason Kohles
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 1:58 PM
> To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [ic] Re: FORUM - instead of Mailing List 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 02:05:17PM -0500, Doug Alcorn wrote:
>>  
>> 
>>   JK> when I respond I can use a decent editor rather than an html
>>   JK> textarea. 
>> 
>> This can't be over stated enough. 
>> 
> Sure it can, when it degrades into a vi vs. emacs argument, then it's
> been over stated too much.  But then I did say 'decent', which rules
> out emacs. 
> 
> See, there it goes.  =)  
> 
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