>As I said, I'm sure Bill Gates said leave those toy phones to Nokia, RIM and >Apple. Google seem to have been smarter. As mobile and web technologies take >over I can see much harder times ahead for anyone dependent on local >dependencies. >
Those reliant of distant web servers without no knowledge of data security employed by service providers are being naive. At least retrieved data onto a local hard disk drive allows data to be in more tangible control. >On 04/18/2011 03:11 PM, RGB ES wrote: >> Well, even if I'd said that the ancient forums vs mailing lists war >> was not the point but *what people use*, the forums vs. mailing lists >> useless fight came again... >> At first I was tempted to refer how the English forums have near 200 >> new message each day and talk about the madness it would be to receive >> near 200 mails each day. I was tempted to talk about how I'm giving >> on-line support to users since a long time (I started using computers >> more than 25 years ago) and justify the fact that I know quite well >> the advantages and disadvantages of every possible communication >> system in use for the last 20 years... Many things... >> But I'm giving up. >> Have a nice day! >> And don't worry to answer me, I'm unsubscribing from the mailing list. >> >I do agree that, whatever their limitations, forums are the discussion = > >platform of the masses and LibreOffice needs to form a community that = > >includes the non-geek populace if it is to become the premier version of = > Not sure that a web forum suddenly makes the use of LO more appealing to "non-geeks" What's wrong with reading mailing list messages in digest mode and going to the searchable archive as and when appropriate. Has the been a poll on mailing list against forum? Regardless of the result, "non-geeks" should be encouraged to understand the benefits of a mailing list, similarly to explaining LO compared to m$o... -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
