Forums, etc... just segregate a community; and the people most likely to be able to answer questions [in my 10+ years experience] prefer mailing lists [because they also prefer real mail clients which make using mailing lists almost effortless?].
By that token your saying that forums and irc and anything OTHER than a mailing list segregate a community and provide no benefits ? Kind of insulting to myself and other forum creators that have taken the time to create forums/irc channels and more to HELP the community. Not EVERYONE likes to use mailing lists. Mailing lists are many/most of times the official means of communication for projects such as opensuse/fedora/debian, but that doesn't mean forums and irc don't serve any purpose. Many times most of the useful information on the net will be found in forums. http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de 226,995 posts http://www.suseforums.net 171,690 posts (some duplicates of above forum) http://opensuse.us 11,324 posts (And my forum is less that one year old ) http://usalug.org 92,207 posts That's over 1/2 a million searchable posts in 4 forums. Please don't underestimate the usefulness of forums. Crouse Site Admin OpenSUSE.us -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
