On 8/23/03 5:18 AM Stephen Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >What do other people think? Should I move to a forum for the tech support? >Or would better promotion of the existing web archives of the list be good >enough (you can read the list there, but not post)?
I read the mailing list and respond to some Mac related questions. I would never scan all of a forum, or even look at the parts I do loog at on a regular schedule, so I would probably miss the same questions if they were in a forum or respond to them much more slowly. I would think that what you want is a really well designed mailing list archive. I hardly ever run across a really well designed list archive for any list. Forums are much easier to scan for answers to questions that have already been answered. Forums are also nice when the same question comes up over and over and the answer changes over time, you get to see the new material in the context of the old material. Mailing lists are much better for people like me who have enough involvment to actually read the entire list. Forums work better for people who just pop in now and again to deal with a specific issue, and ignore everything the rest of the time. I would suspect that most of the people here, by head count, are really in the second category, even though all the long term core members are in the first category. Jason ----------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------- Dr. Seuss books . . . can be read and enjoyed on several levels. For example, 'One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish' can be deconstructed as a searing indictment of the narrow-minded binary counting system. -- Peter van der Linden, Expert C Programming, Deep C Secrets +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
