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> On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 12:32 -0700, Gregory Youngblood wrote:
>> On Oct 9, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote:
>>
>> > On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 02:51 -0400, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>> >> On Oct 8, 2011, at 9:49 PM, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 06:35:57PM -0600, LinuxBSDos.com wrote:
>> >>>>>> As Bernd Helber remarked, forums can play a significant role in
>> Linux
>> >>>>>> distributions, as they allow users to "have conversations". It
>> would be
>> >>>>>> great if an initiative to create one for OI could be started.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I agree that forums are more user-friendly when you're searching
>> for
>> >>>>> an answer that already exists. However, I find mailing lists
>> easier to
>> >>>>> interact with and reply to on a regular basis. I think the reason
>> the
>> >>>>> OpenSolaris forums worked so well is that each forum also had a
>> >>>>> mailing list bridged with it, so you got the best of both worlds
>> (easy
>> >>>>> search and easy participation). My request would be the the
>> mailing
>> >>>>> lists not be dumped in favor of forums, but rather set up as
>> another
>> >>>>> way of participating with the forums.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I didn't call for abandoning the mailing list, rather for setting
>> up
>> >>>> something that is more community-oriented.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> So, who's gonna make the decision?
>> >>>
>> >>> I think that having a bridge between the two would be great.  Either
>> way, we
>> >>> could set up some experimental thing and see if it works.
>> >>>
>> >>> Jeff.
>> >>
>> >> I must be old-fashioned, but I find an NNTP server easier than forums
>> (and less junk accumulating on my mail server).  Seamonkey has an
>> adequate reader, although I prefer knews.  Those have nice threading,
>> killfiles, etc.  And they're usually _much_ faster and less problems
>> than a web forum.
>> >
>> > +1!!!
>> >
>> > Sad that newer generation seems to have missed this very useful
>> protocol
>> > - indeed, as some have argued, "the original groupware".
>>
>> Yes. as I said in a previous message, it seems the new generation of
>> "internet" users are really "web" users. If it's not on the web it's
>> doesn't really count. Sad.
>
> Yet I have NEVER gone to e.g. FreeBSD forums for an answer.  Maybe they
> got some good people there.  I don't know.  But I DO know that the lists
> are where the true experts hang out.  Now if all you need is someone to
> point you to /etc or something.... ???
>
> The point is that it depends a lot on the particular community. And it's
> goals.  OpenBSD, for example, has now desires for world domination and
> could care less whether I eat their dog food or not.
>

That attitude is why OpenBSD will continue to exist on the periphery of
the technology space, in spite of all the great tools they are sitting on.

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