If you want a newsgroup, why don't you go start a newsgroup? There are plenty of mediums for information about GWT that aren't maintained by Google. No reason you can't create another one.
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Lothar Kimmeringer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not Ken Shabby schrieb: >> I would find this group more useful and would participate more if >> there were "sub-groups" of some kind. > > Why not starting by moving the GWT-group from a maillist/web-forum to > a newsgroup (residing in Usenet). From the general point of view of > the regular Google Groups user who is accessing the group with the > web-browser like a web-forum there is no difference. But the "power- > user" can use his/her news-reader allowing e.g. using scoring, flags, > etc. to find the interesting things. > >> I see similar "newbie" questions >> over and over again, or questions about the same topic repeated many >> times. > > In a newsgroup the general way is posting a weekly/monthly FAQ. > >> Searching is NOT a solution. > > I think Google might think different about that ;-) > >> Searching might be OK, if you are >> just looking for the answer to a problem and you hope someone else has >> already expressed the problem in the same way that you would and it >> has been answered, BUT ... > > ... simply asking is much easier ;-/ > >> if I am browsing through looking to help by >> answering a few questions, I don't want to wade through the same stuff >> over and over again. I also see no current way in which useful answers >> are retained. So kind of categorization would be useful. ? Major >> catagories >> ? Experience level >> ? Tags >> ? Votes > > The current traffic of GWT is about 600 messages per week, which is not > too much for an average newsgroup. Only the organization as web-forum > makes it uncomfortable. I'm not happy, either, because I use the > group as maillist, leading to huge inboxes if I'm away for some time. > > Changing it to a newsgroup would ease things a lot. It would enlarge > the audience (Usenet-user instead of only Google Groups users) also. > > > > Regards, Lothar > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
