On May 6, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Druppy wrote:
This is one of the reason I support moving the email lists on to web
forums. Has this been discussed at all? It makes joining as a
newbie much less intimidating, clears up the email clutter, and
makes it much easier to track threads. But maybe that has already
been discussed?
I cant' recall where I've seen it before, but there was at least one
implementation of a combination mailing list/forum where posts to
either would go to both.
THAT I would go for.
Personally, I find mailing lists better for the way I work, because
the messages come to me. Forums, unless I'm very interested in a
specific issue, get ignored, because I have to go to them.
This specific issue, though, is not a problem that would have been
solved by forums, as Gus's information on disabling overcommit in
Linux was simply another post in a long winding thread about Xen that
I had long since stopped caring to check. On a forum, I'd simply skip
over that thread entirely, because, hey, it's about Xen, right?
Starting a new (appropriately titled) thread got my attention, and Gus
very helpfully provided a link to his previous message.
Honestly, I don't see how doing this on a web forum would have been
any better/different, other than Gus providing a link to a forum post
rather than a mail archive.
I'm open to debate on the issue, though.
Gregory
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