On Thu, March 31, 2005 21:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > There are many on-line forums related to asterisk, including > www.asteriskforum.com ... the problems is that as long as Digium supports > this type of "dinosaur era" list, the other communties will not grow. > > The responsbility is Digium and if they truly care about building this > community, they should endorse one of the forums, or set up their own, and > turn this list off. > > There is no need to set up another one, as their are already many people > who have done that. You can set up 100 of these, but if Digium does not > support it by using it, then there is is a problem > > I don't believe that Digium is as narrow minded as suggested by the poster > below. > > >> >> This subject has come up about every two months for the past year >> or more, and the exact same answers still apply. If you want a forum, >> go set it up; it ain't going to happen at digium. >> >> Others have already set up forums; go find them and use those. >><SNIP>
This is a discussion I see popping up every other month or so on virtually every mailinglist I am on... Some people prefer web forums, but in the end - at least on the lists I am on - a vast (often mostly silent <G>) majority prefer mailinglists... - It's much easier to just leech (silent majority anyone? ;-) ) on mailinglists, and absorb information. - Mail can be read anywhere, with or without web access - Mail reading is usually faster and easier than forum topics - Mail takes less bandwidth (data plans, etc.) etc. So besides disadvantages, there are also advantages to mailinglists, which for many take precedence over the 'advantages' of webforums. I do not claim/pretend to speak for everybody on this list, but I *do* think that others that promote web forums should not do so either... -- Francesco Peeters ---- GPG Key = AA69 E7C6 1D8A F148 160C D5C4 9943 6E38 D5E3 7704 If your program doesn't recognize my signature, please visit http://www.CAcert.org/index.php?id=3 to retrieve the Root CA certificate. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
