On Mar 5, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote: > A bunch of telephony geeks and a 1900 number - what could go wrong? > > Anyways, I too don't understand why people prefer forums. > > I follow dozens of mailling lists and a half a dozen e-mail addresses > without ever leaving my mail client. My mail client happens to be > gmail, btw: > > - Much more customization, filtering, etc possible than any "web > forum" > - "Local" copies of all messages > - Search is awesome, ever hear of Google? ;) > > Web forums are good when you have to serve ads to people to get > paid. Other than that they are certainly not the ideal tool for the > job. > > Besides (and don't take this as an insult) - have you ever compared > the web forums to the mailing lists for projects that offer both? Say > what you want to say about mailing lists and IRC but the reality > (usually) is the l33tz all hang out here and web forums (almost > always) end up with the same groups of n00bz circling around and > around trying to figure out how to accomplish even the most basic of > tasks. > > Obviously that can go both ways but as a rule of thumb the people > that are usually in a position to help others typically prefer mailing > lists (probably for some of the reasons I cited above). Or maybe they > are just old gray hairs too stuck in their ways. I don't know. ;)
I previously thought the same about the insiders always preferring mailing lists but I have a friend who is a core member of the cacti developers and they apparently prefer the forums to the lists, but have both. Food for thought at least. MIke _______________________________________________ Freeswitch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
