Stephen Joyce wrote: > Well, personally I find the Backup Central forum traffic to be annoying. > The email list existed long before the BC forum (for BackupPC) did and got > along fine without it. Further it's an untenable practice; if every > centralized resource wannabe created a web forum <-> email listserv > gateway, it would get very chaotic very quickly.
How so? As far as the list is concerned, the forum is one member and it is generally pretty well behaved. The more the merrier as long as there is some protection against spam. > I will say that I > haven't been impressed with the quality of the questions or solutions from > the users of the Backup Central forum (not saying that we don't get a lot > of RTFM questions via the email list, but it seems the forum is responsible > for far more than its share). That's kind of the point. How much should you have to know to be able to ask a question? I've always thought that http://www.lugnet.com/ had the right idea. It's simultaneously a set of newsgroups, email lists, and web forums, depending on how you want to read it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
