See my Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:30:23 -0400 email (Sorry emails have no message #s to refer to :) )
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Keith O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 00:25:30 -0400 >I think that you missed my point. I am not proposing to establish a forum >and abolish the maillist. > >The forum would get traffic as all posts sent to the maillist would >automatically post to the forum. Those that want to answer using the forum >can do so and it would forward to the list. > >If the forum fails, the maillist is running in parallel and would still be >active so we would be back where we are today. While the newsgroup option >is an option, I'd agree this isn't the best avenue due to spam abuse. > >I realize that your needs may not require a forum, which is fine. And for >those like you things would proceed as is without changes. For those that >have other needs would have another option. > >Keith > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tilghman Lesher >Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 1:37 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Google newsgroup or Forum setup. > > > >Top-quoting. Argh. > >On Monday 29 September 2003 12:16 pm, Keith O'Brien wrote: >> I'll offer one better. Why don't we mirror all of the maillist >> posts to a forum. That way both parties are happy. Those that want a >> forum can use a forum interface and still post to the maillist and >> those that like the maillist can stay as is. > >Because the point was that forums, while their proponents feel is the next >best thing since sliced bread, don't actually get very much traffic. >There's far too many projects out there (Sourceforge, >anyone?) which have died due to the dearth of people checking the forum for >posts. > >Note that the mailing list is archived in several different places, and >everything is indexed by Google. If the one provider hosting a forum has a >catastrophic failure, there isn't much in the way of backups. > >-Tilghman > >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > -- Costas Menico Meezon Software Corp 201-224-8111 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
