Mike Noyes wrote:
Everyone,I personally find web forums and newsgroups much more difficult to manage than a simple e-mail list. If we switched to such a format, I for one would probably be heard from a lot less...not because of any change in desire to help, but just because it would be much more inconvinent to stay on top of current traffic without it piling up in my inbox as a reminder to go through it. :)
It has come to my attention that our leaf-user list volume is
discouraging some/many users from using it. We have a variety of options
to address this issue.
a) Keep things as they are.
b) NNTP support (news.gmane.org and/or nntp.sourceforge.net)
c) Web support (SF forums for each LEAF release/branch) (note: we
already use SF support trackers)
d) New LEAF release/branch specific MLs.
leaf-bering
leaf-dachstein
leaf-lince
leaf-oxygen
leaf-packetfilter
leaf-wisp-dist
Any suggestions, comments, or opinions are welcome.
While I think per-distribution lists might be a solution, I think all current LEAF flavors benifit from having a single list. I know I've answered questions from folks running Oxygen and Bering, and have seen users of other disto's answer questions relating to Dachstein.
I would suggest an alternative option:
Keep things as they are, but indicate the list is fairly high-traffic (so folks are not unplesently suprised). I also suggest pointing out the option of not subscribing to the list, but rather monitor one of the list archives for answers to their posts. Combined with the using "respond to all" when replying to list messages, this should be pretty workable.
NOTE: Since the various list archives have tended to have less than amazing reliability and usefulness when searching, should we maybe try to setup our own searchable list archive?
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