On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 07:53, costas wrote: > See my Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:30:23 -0400 email (Sorry emails have no > message #s to refer to :) )
This is why top posting bites. What the hell are you talking about? > ---------- 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 -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
