[OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with website

[Ken Gunderson]

On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 13:37 -0600, Ken Gunderson wrote:
> 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. 
> 

Apologies for follow my own post: s/now/no/ above.  

-- 
Regards-- Ken Gunderson