Am 25.08.2011 19:24, schrieb Mike Scott: > On 25/08/11 17:33, Mathias Bauer wrote: >> Am 24.08.2011 22:47, schrieb NoOp: >> >>> Hmmm... OK. It was 'tongue-in-cheek' Drew. I'll not even comment on the >>> Sun->Oracle lists transition :-) But I will add this; if OOoA goes to >>> forums only, then I'll not be participating. >> >> I think we all should try to become more open for new development. It is >> clear that mailing lists are easier to handle for the "regulars", the >> most active participants. But OTOH a huge number of users looking for >> help (if not the vast majority) aren't experienced mail users. >> >> The results are known: >> >> - posts without subjects >> - destroyed threads >> - frequent mails with "why do I get all these mails, please help me out >> of here" (and that's just the polite version ;-)) >> - quoting disasters >> >> etc. > > Like our present "descadastra-me" friend? :-) I take your point. But I > have a suspicion his type will appear even on a forum, albeit in a > different guise.
It's easier to get rid of a web forum: just don't visit it anymore. :-) But mails keep coming to your inbox, whether you want them or not. > But if anyone wants to think 'new development', there's no reason one > shouldn't have the best of both worlds. Properly designed, you should > have a back-end with all the info, and then web forum, mail list and > newsgroup are purely different interfaces to the exact same database. > I've no idea if such a thing has been written, but it would surely keep > everyone happy. Yes, that would be great, and this was mentioned on the Apache dev-list quite a few times. I'm sure that this could be done, but I don't know if something like this already exists. Regards, Mathias -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
