I don't really care to debate to be honest, the method of delivery
isn't important to me. But there was a thread a while back asking
what we could do to get more new people involved, and I am proposing
that not using a mailing list and using a web forum would be a good
place to start. I bet a lot of people don't subscribe / immediately
unsubscribe when they see the volume of emails on this list.
I would propose that having a forum system would allow for more new-
user interaction / easier introductions / etc. There are lots of
different forum solutions, many of which allow user definable
layouts / fonts / colors / etc. And in today's world it's a much more
accepted method of mass communication. And most of them do have the
"email me this thread as it updates" so you can just subscribe to the
ones you really care about.
Email lists are so very 1990 ;)
On May 6, 2008, at 11:15 AM, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
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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