On 01/25/2006 10:58 PM Peter Flodin wrote: > Web forums promotes communication between people no matter what their > technical level. Mailing lists very nearly discourage newbies from > helping newbies, as mailing lists usually stop this by complaining > about the wrong quoting method or posting in HTML, or off-topic.
OK, there not that much to do wrong in a forum.
> So in summary:
> I believe that a Web forum will allow the openSUSE community of all
> levels to grow (and provide stickiness to opensuse.org), I don't
> believe that it will harm or divide the technical expertise on
> existing opensuse.org mailing lists. Instead I think it will allow the
> mailing lists to actually discuss the topics intended.
>
> There is an army of users without a voice, give them one...
And who will listen and help? How many people ("good people" sounds
very bad and arrogant, but I mean the ones "knowing" things) will
there be?
An official forum full of newbies and no "experts" is no use to any one.
OJ
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