I have generally found that old discussions - on forums or email - quite often provide a great resource for troubleshooting.
Beyond that, the real issue is critical mass of participants. If there is very little signal, it is irrelevant what the signal to noise ratio is. C Buckley On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Dave <e...@dc9.tzo.com> wrote: > I'm not a big forum user in general. I think the forum model must be > carried out very carefully for it to be effective. > > I think the LinuxCNC forum is very good. I think the CNCZone is not > so good. > > I used to be a regular reader/contributor on the CNCZone but the hassle > factor was too high. Then I was getting emails from the CNCZone... > saying I haven't on at the forum recently, blah blah blah. What a > turn off! My spam blocker killed those. > The CNCZone needs work. > > I prefer email lists as I think it is more effective time wise and I can > follow the threads efficiently, while following a number of threads on a > forum can be very difficult. > > Dave > > On 1/25/2012 9:36 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > On 25 January 2012 12:12, Sven Wesley<svenne.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> If you guys think that the internal forum works well so be it. To me > it's > >> not better at all than (for example) cnczone or the mailing list. > >> > > I agree. However, it is much easier to find, and so ends up being the > > first port of call for new users with a problem. > > I guess that we could put a link there to the cnczone forum instead of > > having our own. > > > > I have nothing against the 'Zone and I am vaguely active there too, > > but it is too big. There is no way that I have the time to keep up > > with all of it, and the LinuxCNC-related stuff ends up being very > > dilute. > > > > I can and do read every post to the LinuxCNC forums and I think the > > same is true of the other moderators, there is a guarantee that a > > query there will get read, and an almost-guarantee that it will get an > > answer. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
