Sorry to jump in the middle of this, but I think that if someone wants to
improve the online support, they would benefit the community the most by
adding a good search front end to each of the list archives. Just a simple
search engine that had a sort-by-date feature at the root of each
http://openscenegraph.org/pipermail/listname directory would be awesome.
Using the existing google search bar is nice, but it is a little difficult
to sort through at times.
Just my two cents,
Keith
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Ed wrote:
Here is another reason NOT to have a forum, instead of an email list: Spam.
I used a forum for another set of development libs and was inundated with
spam. Let's keep this a mailing list....
Ed
Eric Sokolowsky wrote:
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Schmidt, Richard, SDGE1 wrote:
Soo, much mails coming over the list... why not creating a forum
instead?!
phpBB for example is easy to maintain, lets you several subforums and
subscribe to interesting threads.
This question gets asked every once in a while. Perhaps we should make it a
FAQ.
There are those of us on the mailing list (obviously not everybody) who
prefer mail because it provides several benefits:
1. Every message on the list is received. I don't respond to every
question,
but it's nice to see what's going on, and if there is a question that I do
know an answer to, it's much easier to reply in an email than to have
to go to a forum. I believe that people are served less ably with a forum,
as questions are more easily ignored.
2. Messages appear automatically, and quickly. With a forum, you have to go
to the web page and trawl through a clicky-pointy GUI mess. I use pine
for my email client, because it is strictly keyboard-based and fast.
There are probably other reasons not to go to a forum. I would not be as
active in the OSG community if there was just a forum rather than an email
list. It also doesn't make sense to have both because that's just an
unnecessary division of resources. Yes, there are a lot of messages on
this list, and when I get back after having been out of the office for
a few days it is rather daunting to go through 300+ emails, but I think
the benefits outweigh the burdens. I'm glad that the OSG community is
so active and helpful, and I'm happy to be a part of it.
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