On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 08:58 +1100, Peter Flodin wrote: > On 1/26/06, Sonja Krause-Harder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why? What would you expect from it, compared to the existing SUSE > > community forums? > > The why: > > 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. > Just looking for info. Pardon my ignorance.
How is a forum any better than a mailing list. From my stand point you still have to type in some text somewhere and send it off somewhere for other people to respond to hopefully with a helpful answer. Is this not what this list provides currently? I don't see how a mailing list will "discourage newbies" from participating except for the fact that the information on how to subscribe is usually buried somewhere and -not- easily found. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
