Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ok, basic use case. I today go to a forum and read all the messages. > Next day I come along, how do I get a list of all the messages I havn't > read in thread order in such a way that if I decide to go somewhere > in the meantime, it knows what I've read and what I havn't. > > I also monitor several other projects all on mailing lists. With one > mail box I can monitor six projects in one interface. I don't touch the > mouse the whole time. I can whizz through a message every few seconds > because every one is in the same font, same colour, same spacing (HTML > all disabled). No forum is ever going to compete with that sorry.
This really is a killer argument, and I wholeheartedly agree with that. One point comes to mind though, which has been troubling people here for some time and where web forums, as much as i dislike them, could actually be of use, i.e. partitioning. As of now, all kinds of stuff is thrown into this list, mostly * related but not always, from whatever cards over sipura products and manager api to softphone setup and whatever. Now, even if mailing lists were set up for particular topics, I think experience tells us that quite a few users would come here anyway, and people would have a tough time educating them. That's I think the main reason no serious effort is taken in that direction. On the other hand imagine a forum with subtopics like sipura, softphones, zap or whatever. Wouldn't that maybe help to put some load off at least the casual reader and poster seeking or giving advice for topics he/she specialized in, and maybe even the more active participants? Just a thought, and not a bad one imho. Regards, Bruno. _______________________________________________ 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
