So the suggestion is: All Users lists become forums. Developer lists stay.
Only problem I see there is that Developers won't check the forums as much as they should, unless the Users forum has a mail list interface. Hen On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Robert Simmons wrote: > Well, once again I would like to bring up the concept of forum > software for Jakarta. The reason I am bringing it up again is that > mailing lists are intrusive and spammy. Daily I get flooded with a ton > of email that I have absolutely no interest in reading. However if I > unsubscribe to the lists than when there is something that I would > like to know about or answer, I will miss it. In addition, if I > unsubscribe I'm not able to post my own issues. With a mailing list, > the communication mechanism is just too intrusive. On a forum I can > pick and choose what I want to read and reply to. > > As for them being used, its a simple matter of retiring mailing lists > for forum software. > > When we consider that at least 90% of Jakarta users are not Jakarta > developers but will often have a question or an important insight, > than the folly of communicating only in mailing lists becomes clear. > > -- Robert Simmons -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
